Arquitecto Luis Muñoz Maluschka

Resumen del Libro

In the early 1990s the academic staff of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the U de Chile initiated a research on the Modern urban movements in Chile, studying the main actors and contributions of the Estado Planificador Chileno (1929-1979) and the influence of the concepts of European modern urbanism, and its implementation Chile. The objective of the research focused in the Austrian architect and urbanist Karl Brunner von Lehenstein, city planning adviser appointed by the Chilean government and two Chilean architects: Luis Muñoz Maluschka, former Chief of the Section of Urbanisim of the Dirección General de Obras Publicas (ca. 1936 and 1953), and Juan Parrochia Beguin, former Director of Planning and Urbanism in the Ministry of Public Works in Chile (1966-1973), former student and disciple of architect Muñoz. The present edition examines the life and urban contributions of architect Muñoz Maluschka during the time of the Estado Planificador Chileno (1929-1979), a state plan for the general progress through the scientifically and optimal territorial use of land and underground and of the most suitable site for the use of the technical, economic and social facilities of any kind. Muñoz Maluschka praised German democratic regimes as they were who had better developed in the world the new technique for an efficient administration, establishing their methods used then in the entire national territory (Our translation) –Page 7, an alternative to the more popular avant-garde Modernist Movement lead by Le Corbusier in the rest of Latin America.