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Felipe Andrés Aravena Tejo

Postgraduate Researcher

The University of Manchester

Manchester, Reino Unido

Líneas de Investigación


Architectural History, Industrialisation, Technical Assistance, Modernisation and Development in Latin America

Educación

  •  Arquitecto, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2011
  •  Architectural History, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Reino Unido, 2016

Experiencia Académica

  •   Teaching Assistant (Architecture) Part Time

    UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

    Humanities

    Manchester, Reino Unido

    2021 - A la fecha

  •   Profesor Instructor Adjunto Part Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos

    Santiago, Chile

    2012 - 2015

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Jefe de Proyectos Full Time

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2017 - 2021

Difusión y Transferencia


Exhibition Projects (selected)

2017 La Fábrica de Viviendas Populares KPD. Part of the permanent exhibition at Museo de La Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile. Role: Exhibition production, project manager

2014 Monolith Controversies. Chilean Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, June – November 2014. Role: Exhibition and models production, design, catalogue, and site supervision of Ms. Gutierrez’ Apartment section on the exhibition

2014 Panel. Exhibition at the Architectural Association, London. May 2014, London; November 2014, Santiago, Chile. Role: Exhibition and architectural models production, project manager Exhibition design for the Santiago version

2013 Cold War Cool Digital. Exhibition at Pratt Institute, New York, February – March 2013. Role: Exhibition and architectural models production, project manager

2012 From Abstract to Concrete. Exhibition at Gonzalez y Gonzalez Gallery, Santiago, Chile, January - February 2012. Role: Exhibition and architectural models production, project manager


Premios y Distinciones

  •   James Morris Prize

    Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

    Reino Unido, 2020

    The essay ‘BRECAST in Chile: An Interrupted Architecture of Technical Assistance’ won the James Morris Prize from The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, awarded to the best essay submitted in the competition, which uses postcolonial critical approaches to architecture and the British Empire. The text explores the relationships between building design, industrialisation, technologies and development, and post- and neocolonial relations via political economy channels.


 

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An Architecture of Technical Assistance: The failed BRECAST project in 1970s Britain and Chile
Commodifying Architectural Education
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Felipe Aravena

Postgraduate Researcher

School of Environment, Education and Development

The University of Manchester

Manchester, Reino Unido