1. DEFINITION

The Architecture & Design School e.[ad] – PUCV, is working in a exchange program in witch we want to have foreign students from all around the world in our “travesías workshops”. This kind of workshop begins in September and ends in December every year.
Foreign students attending this workshop are responsable for the subject named “taller arquitectónico o de diseño” (architecture or design workshop): with 10 PUCV credits, and the subject named “amereida workshop»: with 2 PUCV credits, adding 12 PUCV credits in total.

2. CALENDAR

Our School works with trimesters (a three-month academic period), but the rest of the schools of our university have semesters. The exchange program is only available during the third period of the year (september-december) because the travesías are only performed during spring.

3. SUBJETS DESCRIPTIONS

1. Travesía Workshop. Architecture or Design Workshop
   The foreign student have to experience a contact with the American continent trough a real architecture or design piece of work, in a trip. These works we do, since 1984 al around America, have a relation with the amereida poetry, because this epic poem sings a duty we have with our continent. We think America is an unknown and mysterious land, and is our poetic duty to reveal and show the sense and the destiny of its people and nations. The most important sense of these trips is to open new matters and points of view that help us to understand and reveal the unknown of our continent. We do this making and building pieces of work –in real scale- in architectural or design fields, in the places we visit. At the end of the three-monthly period, after the trip, we have time to work in and study a final project. This project consist in making an exhibition with scale models, annotation books, the account of all the work and ideas, etc. The aim of this project is an experience in the profession (architecture or design), working with the direct observation of the city’s reality. Our most important study area is the city and all the things and events that take place in it. We study drawing these events. The drawing exercise is our method to investigate the reality of the city, the relationship between citizens and their environment.
2. Taller de Amereida – Amereida Workshop
   This subject is about an American poetic vision. It wants to bring us the present of America, and work around our traditions. It is about bring the originals and their lights over our present. Our school is busy in checking the basic issues that make us Americans, and the Amereida workshop is the place and the time to talk and study these matters. In this way we have an epic poem: “Amereida”. It was written in 1965 by many authors; poets, architectures, painters, philosophers, etc. The poem indicates a very original way of thinking and living. Our tradition is to listen this song of poetry and then try to introduce its main concepts in the art of architecture and design. Our tradition also is open to new dimensions were we could debate about the constant renewal of the relationship between our trades or professions and poetry.

4. ADMISSION

The students who want to be in this exchange have the following requirements:

• For Architecture students: three years of studies in architecture.
• For Design students: two years of studies in design.
• Speak Spanish (in other case they have to take a Spanish curse, witch consists in 40 academic hours in august. For further information feel free to ask at Karol Trautmann (karol.trautmann@ucv.cl).
• Send a personal letter requesting to participate in this exchange program, explaining the reasons and wishes for it.
• Send a letter from a Professor of the student, expounding references.
• Medical insurance witch has to cover the 100% of possible events and all along the time in Chile.
• Official documents from origin university.
• School-leaving certificate of grades.
• Passport’s photocopy.
• A 50 dollar deposit (it will be discount of the program cost)

All documents have to be send to:
Sr. Rodrigo Saavedra Venegas
Avda. Matta #12, Recreo, Viña del Mar.
Chile
Fono 56-32-2274411
Fax: 56-32-2274421