O’Neil Ford Duograph Series, Volume 1 Chile: House, Crypt

January 2008

This volume focuses on two architectural projects that, taken together, provide a telling glimpse into the Chilean culture and landscape--from its colonial legacy to its magnificent coast. Smiljan Radic's House in Punta Pite merges vernacular architecture with a crisp, Modernist sense of design to create a structure that blends intimately with the expansive coast, while Rodrigo Perez de Arce, in creating a newly designed crypt for the centuries-old cathedral of Santiago de Chile, manages to seamlessly synthesize his own contemporary language into the existing layers of the building's history.

On the face of it, these two projects could not be more different, yet the conceptual framework and design constraints successfully confronted by each delineate Chile's contribution to contemporary architecture. This is the first volume in the O'Neil Ford Duograph Series, which selects two contrasting projects in order to explore the best of today's overlooked global architecture.

ISBN: 9783803006851

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Foreword
Introduction, Kevin Alter & Wilfried Wang
On the Edge, Kevin Alter & Wilfried Wang
Houses at Punta Pite, Smiljan Radic
Above and Below, Kevin Alter & Wilfried Wang
Some Steps Down, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
Biographies
Credits

EDITORS

Kevin Alter
Wilfried Wang

SERIES EDITORS

Kevin Alter
Michael Benedikt
Barbara Hoidn
Wilfried Wang

PRODUCTION EDITOR

Christine Wong