Course General Description

The architect graduated from the Diego Portales University is a professional with a knowledge of the conceptual and operational tools of the architectural disciplines. The program is designed to interpret an existing environment from both visions of society. With an informed and critical look at your country and the world, you will act to propose ways of living through projects of urban planning, architecture and landscape in a creative, responsible and rigorous way. Committed to sustainable development and the common good, the UDP architect will be able to make an accurate analysis of each challenge he/she faces, basing actions on theoretical, technological, contextual and programmatic factors.

School General Description

Diego Portales University is one of the first private institutions in Chile. It is amongst the country’s top universities in law, architecture, education, psychology and journalism. Its degrees are structured across the Schools of Architecture, Art and Design, Medicine School, Health and Dentistry, Social Sciences and History, Communication and Literature, Law, Economics and Business, Education, Engineering, and Psychology schools. Diego Portales’s main campus is located in Santiago’s historical centre. The Economics and Business School is further away, in the business area of the city called Ciudad Empresarial, in Greater Santiago. The university’s impressive architecture, inspired by Brutalism, was designed by a team of architects teaching at DPU’s Architecture, Art and Design School. The architecture is meant to foster and encourage social and cultural life in the university.