Abstract

This publication completes the trilogy of interviews with the architects of the three cultural centers built in southern Chile after the 1960 earthquake, in the context of the Chilean-Mexican Fraternal Cooperation Plan 1960-1964: the Diego Rivera Cultural Center in Puerto Montt (architects Sergio Soza and Raúl Bulnes; AUS N° 30, interview with Raúl Bulnes conducted jointly with architect Alicia Paz González Riquelme of UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico); the Universidad Austral de Chile Cultural Center, a building currently occupied by the DAE (architect Eugenio Ringeling; AUS N° 31, interview conducted jointly with architect Tirza Barría Catalán of UACh Valdivia), and the present interview with architect Osvaldo Cáceres González (1926-2022) (image 1), co-author with architects Alejandro Rodríguez and Javier Lisímaco Gutiérrez of the Casa del Arte Universidad de Concepción. The text concludes with a review of the work, and planimetric and photographic information.