dRN

dRN is Nicolás del Río (33) and Max Núñez (32). They started collaborating in 2005 and already have an impressive portfolio, with growing expertise in designing for extreme mountain conditions.

UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

A tour of the architecture campus with landscape student Paula Aguirre and graduate Sofia Valderrama. The school is responsible for some of Chile's most prestigious architects, and is home of ARQ. Tutors and graduates have been employed to design buildings for the campus including Cecilia Puga, Alejandro Aravena (Elemental is based on campus) and, coming soon, a new design school by Sebastian Irarrazaval.


The extension to the library below. 1st stage designed by Teodoro Fernández, Smiljan Radic, Cecilia Puga. 2nd stage by Cecilia Puga, Patricio Mardones.
Paula reviews her landscape project

CECILIA PUGA

Studio visit with Cecilia Puga, architect of some of Chile's finest homes.

Cecilia shares an office with Smiljan Radic on the 20th floor of this tower in central Santiago

EMILIO MARIN

Emilio Marin has recently built a series of modular pavilions along the coastal road in Valparaiso - a favoured seaside retreat of Santiago's artistic community. His work touches on art practice, producing a range of exhibitions, publications, posters and badges. Emilio is launching the Latin America Network Laboratory in February with Fernanda Vuilleumier. This is an open network for architects and artists across the region to expose and catalogue their work.





Marin's Casa Muller, designed with Albert Tidy, can be seen in a music video by Chayanne, 'Si Nos Quedara Poco Tiempo'


CHAYANNE VS MULLER from emilio marin on Vimeo.

RADIC AND FERNANDEZ

Lunch with Patricio Mardones at Mestizo, a restaurant designed by Smiljan Radic in a park designed by Chilean master Teodoro Fernandez. Stone pillars by Radic's partner, sculptor Marcela Correa.

A MODERN MONASTERY

ARQ

Partricio Mardones, subdirector of Ediciones ARQ and curator of exhibition Made in Chile, has been publishing the work of some of Chile's best architects. The magazine is published four times a year, and is complemented by books on Chile's modernist masters and younger architects including Cecilia Puga, Smiljan Radic and Pezo von Ellrichshausen. It is based at the Universidad de Catolica.






Postcards of magazine covers, by Chilean photographers and illustrators.
The editor's office.

JAFFER KOLB

Jaffer Kolb, former Features Editor of Architects' Journal, arrived in Santiago to join my research of local architects.