Magdalena Gutiérrez (La Paz, Bolivia, March 27, 1934 – September 26, 2019). Bolivian-Chilean architect.
Summary
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- 1 Data
- 2 works
- 3 Awards and Recognitions
- 4 His Last Will
- 5 sources
Data
- Born in La Paz, Bolivia, she moved to Concepción, Chile, after her mother became involved in a relationship with a Chilean soldier, who was serving in the Chaco War. As a result of the war, Cuca never met her father.
- He arrived in the city of Antofagastain 1985.
- She was a qualified architect from the University of Chile (1977) and worked as an academic at the School of Architecture of the Universidad Católica del Norte (UCN) for ten years.
- She developed her career in two stages: from the age of 16 until she decided to get married in the fourth year of her career and start her family project, devoting this stage of her life to raising 7 children in the city of Concepción and the other, when he was 38 years old, he resumed his studies.
- She began her professional career at the age of 42 as an academic at the University of Chile in the construction school, later moving from Santiago to the Universidad Católica del Norte where she worked for 10 years.
He got to know San Pedro de Atacama , in the Antofagasta Region ; he fell in love with the place and specialized in construction.
- During her time as an academic at the UCN, she visited the town on several occasions with students, learning from those who still preserved the historical techniques of clay to erect buildings, using techniques such as adobeor rammed earth , which use elements found in the same area as gravel, pebbles, coarse sand and clay soil.
She was a promoter and manager of construction and cultural projects for the revaluation of the heritage of the Atacama desert. She was called the soul of Red ARCOT for her consistent work in rescuing the Constructive Cultures. She left more than 13 works built with adobe. She worked in the construction of houses as well as hotels, all with the techniques of the land. Her idea of inhabiting it led her to reject any commission that was not based on the principles of adobe or rammed earth.
“I was invited to work at the Universidad Católica del Norte, and as soon as I arrived at “Antofa”, the next day I came to see San Pedro, without knowing the place at all, I came here and knew that this was my place… the first The work we did was a house… The most powerful thing in personal terms has been arriving and starting with this my first work -the hotel- because before I had only done small things, and this work is mine, as far as it can be mine…”
Magdalena Gutierrez
- It was known as the “Cuca” in the network of builders on land.
“Earth Cultures is a culture that lives off the land, that is born with the land, that builds with the land, that dies with the land, something much fuller and more holistic than just construction, because diseases are cured with earth, the earth is like impregnated in life and links all aspects of their lives”
Magdalena Gutierrez
All the architectural development for me has been here – in San Pedro de Atacama – it is the place where I have really been completely dedicated, I have been learning, the teachers themselves have been teaching me many things… I fell in love with the land of in such a way that I reject any other project that I am commissioned in steel, concrete or concrete blocks.
Magdalena Gutierrez
His work has been highlighted by academics, cultural managers and institutions for his rescue of heritage and identity and for his vision of the individual and his relationship with his surroundings.
Construction
- Hotel Kimal, living heritage ofthe Atacama desert.
- Numerous works in San Pedro de Atacama (1991-2013): Architecture and construction on raw land.
Awards and honors
- The ARCOT Networkin its fifth meeting names her as the soul that inspires the work of the network.
- Manuel Moreno Guerrero Award for the architect outstanding in his professional work in the field of valuing the national architectural heritage (shared with the architectOsvaldo Cáceres).
his last wish
He passed away on September 26, 2019, his remains cremated and deposited in the Licancabur volcano .
