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2018 COD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CHILE TABLE OF CONTENTS Remarks 4 Introduction 4 Welcome to Chile 5 Thank You 6 AIA Board 8 Organizing Team 10 Seminar 12 Architecture Tour / Architects 14 Downtown 18 Campus 50 Modern Architecture 62 Contemporary Architecture 70 Additional Reading 98 2 AIA COD Conference, Santiago 2018 3 THE AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN 2018 COD THEME The AIA Committee on Design (COD) was The theme for the AIA Conference on founded to promote design excellence Architecture 2018 is Blueprint for Better among members of the AIA, the broader Cities. During 2018, the AIA Committee on design community, and the public at Design will visit Vancouver BC; New York; large, both nationally and internationally. and Santiago, Chile. What better places to The committee goals are to examine and visit to learn about the Blueprint for Better promote knowledge of contemporary Cities? Studying these three great cities design issues, to compare current design gives us the opportunity to delve into the and historic precedents, to learn from the important issues of planning, urban design, contrast or progression of ideas, and to architecture, and the significance of design! advocate leadership roles for architects These cities display excellence in design at within the fields of design and planning. As all levels, from the smallest scale to mega one of the largest interest areas within the developments. Our journey will expose us family of the AIA Knowledge Communities, to design excellence and the importance of the COD is the standard bearer for design design in our lives. in the Institute. The committee makes recommendations for Gold Medalists, Firm Awards, Honorary Fellows, and Institute Honor Awards. But most importantly, we come together in a collegial atmosphere to learn and to celebrate design with old and new friends alike! Design Excellence Matters! 4 AIA COD Conference, Santiago 2018 5 WELCOME TO CHILE Costanera Center, designed by Pelli Clark Pelli, UPCOMING CONFERENCE IN CHILE will offer stunning views of the city and the Welcome to the American Institute of surrounding mountains. The Committee on Design’s first conference Architects Committee on Design’s first in South America will take place in Santiago, conference in South America. We have an Our conference will also include a visit to the Chile, from October 20 to 27, action packed lineup of activities. We will be highly regarded VIK winery and Hotel, where 2018 (springtime in Chile). Santiago has a visiting Santiago and Valparaiso and have we will stop on our bus trip to the scenic city rich history and architecture that reaches the opportunity to meet with prominent and of Valparaiso, located on the west coast of from colonial times to present emerging architects in this vibrant country Chile. The conference includes dinner at the day and provides an opportunity to study rich with history. The architecture of Santiago famed Mestizo Restaurant, a reception the and learn how the Blueprint for Better reaches from colonial times to the present Patricia Ready Art Gallery and a visit with the Cities is an important global activity. We day and provides a global perspective on the leadership team of Arch Daily, a prominent will learn how a South American city with a Blueprint for Better Cities, Presidents carl resource for global architectural news. different economic structure and different Elefante’s theme for the AIA this year. The Conference provides an exceptional challenges addresses issues similar to those opportunity Ro learn about the history of present in Vancouver. During the week-long The conference includes presentations design in a prominent and growing country. conference, we will hear from planners and by urban planners and architects and we architects while we tour historic centers, are visiting significant historical sites and As all COD conferences, we will have the new universities and commercial centers, recently completed buildings designed opportunity to catch up with old friends and and visit the work of prominent Chilean by prominent architects working in Chile make new friends! Thank you for making the architects. The conference will also include today. Copperbridge International, the firm COD and our annual conferences part of your a visit to the important coastal city of who helped organize the highly successful design experience! Design Matters! Valparaiso. We have chosen Geo Darder conference in Havana has been engaged to of Copperbridge to help organize the organize this conference in Chile. conference. Many of you will remember that George H. Miller, FAIA Copperbridge was the lead organizer of the Among the prominent sites and buildings that 2018 Chair extremely successful COD conference in will be visited during the conference are the AIA Committee On Design Havana. Plaza de arias and the Metropolitan Cathedral, both within walking distance of the hotels. The hotels are located a short distance from Note: While every attempt has been made George H. Miller, FAIA the town center and offer the opportunity for to define a schedule that can be maintained, 2018 Chair, AIA Committee on Design self guided tours should you feel the need please be aware that adjustments to our to do even more exploration than is formally schedule may be required. planned! We will visit the National Museum of the Arts, the Contador School of Architecture and the Campus Joaquin where we will hear from representatives of Elemental. We will also tour the Monastery Benedict’s and the Baha’I Temple a building that has received numerous design awards world wide. A visit to the observation deck of the Gran Torre 6 AIA COD Conference, Santiago 2018 7 THANK YOU I would like to extend my warmest appre- conference. Together, we have arranged a Exploring the riches of a country always ciation to all of the members of the AIA conference where design will take prece- begins with its people. Over the course of the Committee on Design who are present for our dence in all that we do. As in Cuba, we have past year, I have spent three months in Chile committee’s first excursion to South America! added cultural and social activities to enrich that have allowed me to gather and get to It is a privilege to share this journey with our experiences in Chile. know the best ambassadors to represent the each of you and I thank you for your enthusi- rich culture and design of this Latin American astic support of this conference. I also wish to On behalf of all of our COD members, I would country. It is my pleasure to now introduce thank the many architects and planners who like to specifically thank our sponsors and you to Chile, through these connections and have worked with us to arrange for special specifically US Gypsum who has been an friends, and welcome you, not as a tourist, access to sites and to give us background on integral part of the COD for many years. And but as a guest for this week that we have de- the buildings that we are visiting. none of our conferences would be successful signed for you. I am grateful to George Miller without the dedication of our trio of highly and AIA for trusting me and Copperbridge In early 2016, the Advisory Committee began talented and skilled AIA staff members, Susan Foundation to create an equally fulfilling to discuss venues for the fall 2018 confer- Parrish, Lori Feinman, and Akanksha Singh. experience to the one we provided in Cuba. ence. We chose Chile because it offered an Thank you all! Sincere thanks to my colleagues Jeannette opportunity to learn about and to see exciting Plaut, Diego Baloian, Catalina Rojas, Ignacia architecture that responds to different Paris, and all the wonderful people and places cultural and societal requirements than those they have shared with me in Chile, Isabel familiar to us. We were interested to see the Fernández, Alejandro Rojas, Andrea Zerbin, work of emerging architects as well as the Fran Goycolea, Baloian and Paris family, my work of established architects who are held George H. Miller loyal team at Copperbridge, and all of those I in high esteem in Chile and abroad. We have 2018 COD Chair have met along the way to make this possi- a number of AIA Honorary Fellows from Chile, ble. Thank you and welcome to Chile! many sponsored by the COD, and we will have the opportunity to meet with many of them during our conference. We thank them for their assistance. Geo Darder When Santiago and Valparaiso were selected Copperbridge Foundation as the conference locations, I reached out to Geo Darder, the successful organizer of the informative and exciting Havana COD 8 AIA COD Conference, Santiago 2018 9 CHILE VALPARAISO Chile´s main port, declared Patrimony of UNESCO in 2003, has an outstanding architecture of English influence of the XIX century in wood that has managed to survive a succession of fires A country of intense and recurring earthquakes, its cities have been devastated innumerable and earthquakes. times, which is reflected in a scarce colonial past. This apparent disadvantage has developed a modernity during the 20th century as an effective constructive response to the seismic reality The city is ordered from the plan – the lowline of the city - where the activities of the port and that has been encouraged by the State through an agenda in public works, social housing poli- institutional are linked to the heights of the hills where the residential area expands organi- cies, education, among others, from universities in plans educational, extending to the private cally. An old network of funiculars connects the city with different stations spread throughout sphere with great success, reflected in a large number of works of great architectural quality the hills and a series of pedestrian paths that maintain the condition of balconies towards around the sixties as has been recognized in the exhibition: “Latin America in Construction” ex- the sea.