University model and teaching practices: An introspective glance to eight Chilean architecture schools

Abstract

This article shows the outcomes of a research on the current status of architect training in Chile. Interviews made in eight architecture schools reveal the reactions and/or attempted adjustments facing the challenges posed by these times of deep transformations. The answers helped establish an informed status of stakeholder perceptions and perspectives concerning their own schools, as well as an updated vision of the discipline’s training in Chile. In addition, the study reveals the strong need for an introspective and critical view of our teaching practices. The unprecedented challenges faced by architectural training since the bologna Agreement –compounded by systematic social crises and the current global pandemic– are an opportunity we must learn how to take. To a large extent, the discipline’s sustainability over time depends on this.