Course General Description

Central focus of this program is recovery and restoration of existing landscapes that have been replaced due to mining activities and energy sites production (hydroelectric plants, wind fields, geothermal energy). The program is constantly exploring the ways to minimise the negative impact that some industries produce on the environment. Thus the students of this program will be able to get an education of professionals who specialise in sustainable architecture and urban landscapes.

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.