En abril del año 2019, Fernando Pérez fue reconocido con la Medalla AOA por su brillante y fructífera trayectoria académica. Este Premio Nacional viene a reconocer sus otras múltiples calidades profesionales que nuestra asociación hace suyas en este homenaje. In April 2019, Fernando Perez was recognized with the AOA Medal for his brilliant and fruitful academic career. This National Award recognizes his many other professional qualities, which our association endorses in this tribute.
The Association of Architects' Offices enthusiastically celebrates the award of the 2022 National Architecture Prize to Fernando Pérez Oyarzún, an occasion on which we pay tribute to the multiple profession, the trainer of generations of architects, the professor, and the intellectual who has generously given his knowledge, reflections, and experience to the academic world, to the national heritage and our country's architecture. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at Pontificia Universidad Católica (1977), and then at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona (1981), where he obtained his doctorate. He has been the Visiting Design Critic at Harvard University in 1990 and Universidad Simón Bolívar, a professor at Cambridge in 2000, and a professor at the Center for Advanced Studies in Uppsala, Sweden. Between 1987 and 1990, he was director of the School of Architecture at PUC, and, between 1990 and 2000; he was the dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts. He was also the director of the Cultural Heritage Center from the same university and is also leading the development of the Sergio Larraín Garcia Moreno Archive at the School of Architecture and Fine Arts. He has dedicated his life to academia at his alma mater, the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Arts at PUC, focusing his attention on research into the theory and history of architectural projects. His thoughts and reflections have been captured in several books. Among other publications, the multi-volume series History of Chilean Architecture is recognized as a reflection that allows us to understand modern architecture in Chile. Another of his books -written jointly with Alejandro Aravena- is Facts about Architecture,
with several editions and widely used in the teaching of ar- chitecture, both in Chile and in South America. He has been invited to publish in national and international magazines such as the Harvard Architecture Review, Projeto, Block, Revista CA, ARQ, Revista AOA, Casabella, and Arquitectura Viva, among others. His work is also evident in his relevant completed work, which embodies an environment of respect for the con- text and pre-existences. Pérez Oyarzún is the author of the UC School of Medicine, the UC School of Art, and the Cancer Institute and, together with his former student José Quintanilla, he designed the facade and courtyard of the UC East Campus, among others. The latter was recognized in 2020 with first place in the Architecture in Brick Award competition. He has been the trainer of great young architects that he recommended to the dean of Harvard in the late nine- ties: Alejandro Aravena, Sebastián Irarrázaval, Mathias Klotz, Cecilia Puga, and Smiljan Radic, all of them with outstanding professional careers, very good projects, and competition prizes. Architect Fernando Pérez Oyarzún has been the director of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago, Chile, for the past two years. In April 2019, Fernando Perez was recognized with the AOA Medal for his brilliant and fruitful academic career. This National Award recognizes his many other professional qualities, which our association endorses in this tribute.
Yves Besançon Prats AOA MAGAZINE DIRECTOR
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