i

Revista de Arquitectura accepted for inclusion in SciELO Chile collection

 

Call for Papers Revista de Arquitectura N. º 49.  

 

ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: POISON OR MEDICINE? + FREE THEME

 

Deadline for receipt of articles:  September 7, 2025

Guidelines for authors: https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/about/submissions

Space for Remembrance. Chacabuco: Saltpeter Office and Prison Camp

Authors

  • Francisco Cruz P.

Abstract

Based on the documentary Nostalgia de la Luz (2010) by Patricio Guzman, this project is conceived as a critique of the process of social construction of memory from Benjamin’s conception of “History”. An architectural proposal involving the Saltpeter Office and Chacabuco Prison Camp, understanding the commemoration
as a spatial experience

Keywords:

Saltpeter, Remembrance, Memory and Architecture, Atacama Desert, Experience