Interview with architect Osvaldo Cáceres González

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.