MEMBERS Docomomo Chile


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Maximiano Atria _Architect, Catholic University of Chile 1999. He has collaborated with the office of Rodrigo Pérez de Arce and specially in the project for the remodelation of the Main Square of Santiago between 1998 and 2001, and in 2001 at the office Carlos Alberto Cruz & Associates. During the period 2000-2001 was Studio Associate Professor at the School of Architecture of the Catholic University. Since 2006 maintains an independent practice and is teaches at the Catholic and Andrés Bello Universities, in Santiago.

Fernando Pérez O. _Architect, Catholic University of Chile 1977, and Ph.D. from the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura since 1981. He has been Professor of Architecture at the PUC since 1974. He was Visiting Professor at GSD Harvard University, and Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin american Studies at the University of Cambridge. He was also visiting professor in several chilean an foreign universities. His research works have been related mainly with issues about theory and history of the architectural project. He is co-author of books on architecture among them the well known “Le Corbusier and South America”. His articles have been published in chilean and foreign magazines. He was Director of the School of Architecture and Dean of the Architecture Faculty of the Catholic University of Chile (PUC). Currently in charge of the Heritage Programme and the website patrimoniochile.com. He was keynote speaker at one of the main lectures at the VI International DOCOMOMO Conference held in Brasilia, 2000.



Horacio Torrent _He was born in Argentina, and established in Chile in 1994. He graduated in Architecture at the National University at Rosario – Argentina in 1985. He is Magister in Architecture from the Catholic University in Santiago and Ph.D. candidate from the National University in Rosario. He also studied conservation and restoration at the UNESCO and Argentinean Council for Monuments and Sites Programme in 1985, and at the Social Science Postgraduate Programm of the Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO) in Buenos Aires in 1987-89. He was ARIAH Fellowship in 1997, and he has developed research on modern architecture at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, at the Getty Institute for the Arts and the Humanities, and at the National Gallery of Arts in Washington. He has taught at several universities in Argentina, Chile, Brasil, and Venezuela. He has worked as PNUD- UNESCO Consultant on Restoration of Monuments. He has published several essays and works on architecture, landscape and urbanism of the 20th. Century. He was, between 1996 and 2001, Coordinator of the first Information and Documentation Centre specialiced on Modern Architecture in Chile. He also has developed a professional practice and has entered various national and international architectural competitions, by himself or in colaboration. He has colaborated with Mathias Klotz between 1996 and 2000. He is currently Professor at the School of Architecture and Sub-Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies at the at the Catholic University in Santiago.

Andrés Téllez _He was born in Colombia and established in Chile in 1992. He graduated in Architecture at the Los Andes University in Bogota, 1987. He is Magister in Architecture at the Catholic University of Chile in 1995. He worked in the firms of Rogelio Salmona, Willy Drews, Pedro Murtinho, Humberto Eliash and Manuel Moreno. He is Assistant Professor at the Magister in Architecture Programme at the PUC since 2001 and he also teaches at the Diego Portales University and Andres Bello National University in Chile. He has lectured at several latinamerican countries such as Argentina, Colombia and Chile and published works about Latin American modern and contemporary architecture.

Active Members


(The following list contains the names of all members active up to March 20th, 2007.)

Pablo Altikes _Arquitect.
, Central University 1996. Has teached in several Univeristies in Chile, among them the Central University and UCINF.

Cristián Berríos _Arquitect, Bío-Bío University.

Renato D’alençon _Arquitect, Catholic University of Chile.

Humberto Eliash _ Architect form the University of Chile in 1975. He stablished the office Eliash Arquitects Ltda. dedicated to institutional and publics buildings and urban projects and studies. Studio Adjunct Professor at the School of Architecture of the University of Chile. He has published with Manuel Moreno (+), the famous "Arquitectura y Modernidad en Chile 1925-1965" (1989), the first book on modern architecture in Chile. He published also "Fernando Castillo V. " (1990), “Cristián Boza: Un Eclecticismo Apasionado" (1993) y “Carlos Martner, Arquitectura y Paisaje” 2003, and essays and works in differents reviews of Europe and the Americas. Former editor of ARS –a journal of architecture appeared in chile during the eighties. He is a founder member of the SAL Latin American Seminars on Architecture. He lectures frecuently on Modern architecture in chile, at several universities in Latin America.

Claudio Galeno _Arquitect, Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN), Antofagasta, Chile, 1997; Master of History, Art, Architecture and City: In-corporeal: Body Architectured, ETSAB, Polytechnic University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 2001; candidate to PhD in Architecture Theory and History: Anathomic Theatres, ETSAB, UPC, 2001-2005. From 1997 was teacher at the Architecture Department, FACIC, Universidad Católica del Norte. At the moment he is the Official Teacher in the First Year Architecture Workshop and Cultural Activities Manager. During 1999-2000 he was assistant teacher of architect Max Aguirre at the History courses at UCN. He has contributed in Antofagasta for the Salim Rabi and Alfonso Raposo research: Urban Space and Ideology. The Paradigm of the Housing Corporation of the Chilean Architecture. 1953-1976. Presentation about the Modern Architecture of Antofagasta in the TV Program Desert Zone, TVN Antofagasta. Research FACIC 2003: The Modern Space of Health. The case of the Antofagasta Regional Hospital, UCN. Research FACIC 2004; in process: Collective Working Housing. The Modern Life in Antofagasta.cios Colectivos Obreros. El Habitar Moderno en Antofagasta.

Cristóbal Molina _ Architect and Master in Architecture. TSA - Tulane University, United States, 2003. At the moment attends a Doctorate Program in Architectural Design “The Modern Form” at the ETSAB – UPC in Barcelona, Spain. He has worked in architecture firms in Mexico, United States and Spain. Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design at the Diego Portales University. Collaborator of the publication “Documents of Modern Architecture in Latin America 1950 – 1965. Second Compilation.” (2005).

Hugo Mondragón _Arquitect, UPC, Colombia. Master in Architecture, Catholic University of Chile. Master in History and Theory of Art and Architecture UNAL, Colombia. Has received awards for public competitions organized by the Colombian Society of Arcgitects (S.C.A). Invited lecturer in Chilean and Colombian Universities. Author of several articles in Chile and Colombia, and co-author of the book Arquitectura y Construcción – Chile, 1945-1950, edited by the Central University, Santiago. Currently hold the position of Head of the Master in Architecture Program at the Catholic University of Chile.



Paula Suzuki _Arquitect, Finis Terrae University, 2003. She is presently attending the Master in Architectonic Restoration at the SEK University, Santiago, and works as an independent architect.

Luis Valenzuela._Architect, Catholic University of Chile.

Víctor Valenzuela _Arquitect, Arturo Prat University, Iquique, Chile, 2004; Master in Architecture (c), Catholic University of Chile. Teaches at the School of Architecture of Arturo Prat University, Iquique.