Edificio para la Compañía de Seguros La Mundial. / Building for the insurance company Compañía de Seguros La Mundial.
company Compañía de Seguros La Mundial – a current architectural heritage - and the Timmerman family residence on Lyon avenue. He then opened his own studio - “Oficina de Arquitectura Oyarzun Philippi “ - developing subdivisions and several houses on Santa Magdalena, Lyon and Pedro de Valdivia Streets, in the Parque Forestal area and others. In terms of style, 1920 to 1926 marks the neoclassical and eclectic period in the architecture of Oyarzún. At the same time, between 1922 and 1924 he studied drawing and painting at the School of Fine Arts in Santiago with teachers Juan Francisco González, Richon Brunet and Pablo Burchard, with whom he established a long friendship. Since then he devoted his free time to draw and paint in oil, watercolor and egg tempera, leaving more than 300 works that reflect his travels, cities walked and landscapes visited, architecture works and portraits of friends and family.
Rodulfo Amando Oyarzún Philippi was born in Santiago in 1895 and studied at the National Institute. His vocation for architecture starts at age 17 after completing a semester in the fields of History of Ancient Art, Drawing and Construction at the Polytechnic of Charlottenburg in Berlin. Between 1913 and 1917 he studied architecture at the University of Chile, receiving an academic training based on the Beaux Arts school. For his degree project he developed a neoclassical building for the National Library and Historical Museum of Santiago. The beginnings Initially associated with architect Alberto Schade, his professor at the School of Architecture, with him he designedresidential and institutional buildings such as the School of Engineering of the University of Chile, the building for the insurance
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