Urbanismo en la Universidad de Chile desde 1928: iniciativa e impronta de Alberto Schade

María Isabel Pavez Reyes

doi:10.5354/0717-5051.2019.52652

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The establishment by Schade of the first course of Urbanism at the School of Architecture of the University of Chile in 1928, whose program is unknown, motivated this approach to its possible contents and emphasis. The objective of this study is to support the current assumption about the contents of Schade’s course, as well as to support an extension of the hypothesis about them. It is argued that the formation of Schade in Chile in the first decade of the 20th century, added to the contributions of the Chilean pre-urbanists, would have allowed him to insert himself positively in the European environment between 1911 and 1914, realizing an improvement in architecture and the science of construction, and participating in the intellectual effervescence generated after the recent creation of the term “Urbanism” in England (1910), the «French Society of Urbanist Architects» (1911), and the first “Urbanism Course” in Vienna (1911) . To this experience, upon his return to Chile, progress was made in terms of urban legislation, the initiative to carry out an improvement in Urbanism teaching at the Postgraduate level, and the contributions to knowledge about infrastructures for hygiene in architecture and cities. Things that triggered the will of Schade to establish a course on Urban Planning at the Undergraduate level at the University of Chile. This research starts seeking the background in the formation of Schade in Chile, in the movement for the modernization of education in the country, and in the contributions of pre-urbanists, all of which would have influenced their interest Initial in urban problems; then the research is focused in the Parisian context of his stay in Europe, when, in addition, he met some of the most developed European cities, and certain social movements, and novel approaches for the benefit of urban quality of life. Finally, we tried to place Schade in the Chilean reality between 1914, when he returned to the country, and 1931, when he finished his teaching work. It concludes about the opportunity of the creation of the Schade course in 1928, and about the diversity of contents and emphasis that his teaching in Urban Planning may have had, beyond the background disseminated so far.

Urban planning at the University of Chile since 1928: initiative and imprint of Alberto Schade

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