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CHILE (JUNE 2024)

Bordering the west coast of South America, facing the Pacific Ocean, the Republic of Chile stretches over 4,300 kilometres, from the arid Atacama Desert in the north to the southernmost point of the continent, Cape Horn, with an average width of 180 kilometres. These long borders make this neighbour of Peru, Bolivia and Argentina an exception, and not the 'neoliberal laboratory' to which it is too often reduced. Five years after the estallido social of 2019, which paved the way for the revision of the Constitution dating from the Pinochet era, hopes were dashed as the status quo finally prevailed twice, with the referendums of 2022 and 2023 both resulting in the rejection of new Constitutions, a progressive version (2022) and a conservative version (2023). Chilean architects are convinced that architecture is a way of making the future 'desirable' once again.

What's new
Through the eyes of Archie Moore; Iyas Shahin, Wesam Al Asali, Andés Jaque, Marina Tabassum, Ciro Pirondi and Klaus Klaas Loenhart, laureates of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture; a wooden pavilion designed by Atelier du Pont; books of  Mathias Rollot, Anahy Gajardo, Francisco Díaz, Anastasia Kubrak, Marina Otero Verzier in AA's library; a project by Aurélie Bouchot, student in the 'Inhabiting metamorphosis' master's studio at Nantes school of architecture; A photographic journey through a quarry in the Vosges with Luc Boegly; the forgotten story of the architect Minnette de Silva.

Viewpoints
ART – interview with the Chilean artist Christiane Pooley
CARTOGRAPHIC FILMING – Chile as seen through the camera of the Mafi collective
GEOGRAPHY – Chilean autochthonous territories studied by geographer Bastien Sepúlveda

Architecture
ROUNDTABLE – Chile as seen by architects Pedro Alonso, Thomas Batzenschlager, Alejandra Celedón, Felipe de Ferrari, Cristián Izquierdo Lehmann and Arturo Scheidegger
BACK TO – Quinta Monroy, Alejandro Aravena's 'to be completed' housing programme
SOCIAL HOUSING – story of a fight for the 424 housing units in the Barrio Maestranza Ukamau
HERITAGE – the transformation of the Palacio Pereira by architect Cecilia Puga
EDUCATION – learning architecture in Chile
COMPLETIONS – architectures by Smiljan Radić, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados, Tomás Villalón Arquitecto, Max Núñez Arquitectos and Teresa Moller Landscape Studio