Valentina Rozas-Krause- PhD in Architectural History
- Assistant Professor at Adolfo Ibáñez University
Valentina Rozas-Krause
- PhD in Architectural History
- Assistant Professor at Adolfo Ibáñez University
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Introduction
I received my Ph.D. in Architecture (History, Theory & Society) from the University of California, Berkeley. I'm an architect with a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. My field of study encompasses architecture, urbanism, and landscape from the nineteenth century to the present, with particular research and teaching interests in memory, postcolonialism, preservation, public space, social justice, and gender.
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June 2017 - December 2017
December 2016 - May 2019
August 2011 - July 2014
Education
August 2009 - September 2011
March 2004 - November 2011
March 2004 - July 2008
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Publications (29)
A series of on-site historic plaques and a photographic exhibition at a nearby train station serve as background to study the development of a new memorial to remember the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, California. The design and iconography of the future Tanforan memorial are analyzed alon...
While Holocaust memorials are a ubiquitous sight in Berlin, no memorial exists to the victims of the Herero and Nama genocide, which was carried out by Germany in today’s Namibia from 1904 to 1908. As the capital of the German Empire, Berlin was the center of an expansive colonial system that used violence, genocide, usurpation, and political trick...
Buildings leave an imprint on a site, yet the power of unrealized designs to shape a site’s future remains relatively unexplored. This article delves into the influences and repercussions of Peter Zumthor’s winning proposal for the Gestapo site in Berlin in 1993. Focusing on the history of the site and the course of design decisions across three fa...
The essay analyzes the efforts to preserve Club Atlético, a site that served as a clandestine detention, torture, and killing center under the Argentine civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983). Located in the south part of Buenos Aires, Club Atlético is a memory site in ruins: its materiality challenges architectural design conventions. Examining (...
The article examines the transformation of the Higher School of Mechanics of the Navy in Buenos Aires, ESMA for its Spanish initials, from one of the largest clandestine detention centers of the Argentine military dictatorship (1976–83), into a historical monument, museum, and a campus for human rights organizations. Starting in 2004, ESMA was symb...
The social outbreak of October 2019 defined a new role for monuments in Chile. During the demonstrations, not only the statues that paid tribute to Spanish conquistadors - namely, those who built a country to the detriment of the native peoples - were torn down, but the historical (therefore constructed) backing of certain buildings’ patrimonial st...
Disputar la ciudad recoge ocho capítulos que cruzan problemáticas urbanas, temporalidades y geografías diversas, para ilustrar los variados efectos de las disputas de poder sobre el espacio urbano.se exploran cuatro formas políticas específicas: sometimiento, resistencia, memorialización y reparación, las que demuestran tanto la acción como la reac...
El Diccionario de la memoria colectiva es una obra pionera en los estudios sobre nuestra historia reciente, que toma el pulso al sentir de una sociedad exigente, atenta al legado de otras memorias y a las propuestas de las nuevas corrientes investigadoras. La Editorial Gedisa emprende así un proyecto pun...
This article analyzes the Estadio Nacional - Archivo Abierto [National Stadium - Open Archive]
project, a collective digital archive about the main sports infrastructure in Chile.
Located in the city of Santiago, the stadium was inaugurated in 1938 and quickly became
one of the most important public spaces of the capital city. In 2012 a group of re...
Conceptual and ethnographic examination of the ideology that has given form to one of Chile’s most representative national historical monuments, the Casa Central of the Universidad de Chile, indicates that monuments are a complex social construction of historically situated ideologies and practices and that, simply by being artifacts, they are alwa...
Profile pictures from gay dating sites of young men posing with the stelae of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe in Berlin have been subject to an art exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York and a tribute online blog. This paper unveils the meaning of these pictures on this particular site, in an effort to understand why these men chos...
Ante la pregunta por los idearios que dieron y dan forma a nuestras ciudades y que hacen de tras- fondo a la vida urbana contemporánea, se propone un corpus conceptual que permita leer dichas representaciones a partir de los monumentos históricos nacionales de dos capitales latinoamericanas. De este modo, se sostiene que estos corpus patrimoniales...
Resumen El Palacio de la Moneda, en tanto Monumento Histórico Nacional, constituye una de las piezas centrales en la construcción siempre inacabada de la República de Chile. Esta inves-tigación, se pregunta por la disputa y actualización de esa verdad del pasado fundacional, del presente y el futuro posible de este Palacio de gobierno. ¿Cuáles son...
A lo largo de su existencia, el Estadio Nacional funcionó como refugio ciudadano, tribuna deportiva, plaza cultural y centro de la política presidencialista chilena. Sin embargo, en 1973 la función educadora del recinto pierde su constitución civil para convertirse en un campo de prisión, tortura y muerte. Aunque el ciclo dura solo 58 días, esta in...
Valentina cursó sus estudios de Arquitectura en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y la Universidad Técnica de Berlín, posteriormente realiza el Magíster en Desarrollo Urbano en el IEUT, de la misma universidad.
Actualmente pertenece al equipo de arquitectos desarrolladores del proyecto Parque de la Ciudadanía, Estadio Nacional. Paralelame...
El Estadio Nacional de Santiago fue utilizado como campo de prisioneros políticos durante los primeros días de la dictadura de Pinochet. Después del retorno de la democracia, una serie de operaciones de memorialización se ha intentado materializar en el lugar, en combinación y tensión con otra serie de proyectos que busca recuperar la infraestructu...
El proyecto “Ejercicio topográfico: Un balcón en el valle” para el Estadio Nacional de Santiago (Chile) propone revertir la tendencia de obsolescencia física y funcional del campo deportivo mediante un urbanismo comprehensivo y anticipatorio. Reuniendo deporte profesional y esparcimiento, el proyecto integra cinco dimensiones (urbana, ciudadana, de...
The "Ejercicio topográfico: Un balcón en el valle" project (Topographic exercise: A balcony for the valley") for the National Stadium of Santiago (Chile) suggests the reversal of the physical and functional obsolescence of the sports pitch by means of a comprehensive and anticipatory urbanism. By bringing together professional sport and recreation,...
Se ha afirmado que en la vasta y disímil obra de Georg Simmel no es posible encontrar un hilo articulador que la hilvane en su completitud. A contracorriente, buscaremos discutir dicha interpretación, postulando la existencia de un sistema de pensamiento en su obra. Para ello hemos elegido dos textos del autor alemán que la crítica no inscribe dent...
“Transition to democracy or post-dictatorship?” The dichotomy settled in during the early 90s when the Aylwin[1] Administration had just begun. Indeed, both alternatives represented much more than academic rhetoric. Those who understood the Chilean process as a transition process regarded civilian command, consensus and the need for stability as th...
