This paper develops in greater detail the ideas about teaching architecture at a time of globalization. The research conducted between 1993 -1996, financed by FONDECYT and had the co - investigation and Ana María Inés Arribas Rugiero allowed the detection of some local features of operating performance between architects and laymen, which can be estimated as indicators of visual architecture, while modelers 'autopoietic' a profile of Architectural Identity in central Chile.