Interview with architect Emelyn De los Ríos. Winner of the Marta Scheu 2018 Award.

Abstract

Emelyn Isabel De los Ríos Bravo studied architecture at Universidad Central de Chile, receiving her degree magna cum laude in 2003. Later, in 2010, she took a certificate program on Integrated Urban Planning and Management at the Institute of Urban and Land Studies of Universidad Católica de Chile. Likewise, she pursued post-degree studies at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015); at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Caracas, Venezuela (2012); and at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Montevideo, Uruguay (2015). In 2016, with a scholarship from the Embassy of Denmark, she attended a Gehl Architects’ Master Class in Buenos Aires, Argentina, titled: “Tools for Change: Cities for People”. Since 2011 to date, she performs as National Director of the Public Spaces Program under the Urban Development Division, Urban Works Bureau, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development in Chile, from where she has helped improve the quality of life of Chilean cities, taking a critical view on how cities have been devised. In 2018, she received the “Marta Scheu Torres Outstanding Women in Architecture and Urban Planning Award” on account of her professional background as architect and her contribution to the improvement of public spaces in Chile in her role as architecture practitioner and professor at different universities, but preferably in the public sector.