Cazú Zegers proposes a different angle of approach towards architecture, in an expressive search, intimately related to Chile, its territory, landscape, and traditions. From here arises a task "in progress" that involves a poetic reflection on the way we inhabit the territory.
The thesis that inspires his work is "living light and precarious", referring to a low-tech architecture but with a high experiential impact; understanding that the greatest value of Chile and Latin America is in his territory. He develops an architecture that does not seek to impose itself but to be a kind addition to Nature.
Latin America has something to say to the world, it is a way of doing and thinking with what is at hand, it is a low-tech stance that learns from local processes and their ancestral techniques, which allows living almost without leave a mark on the territory.
This same form of approach to the architectural problem and the question about Chile, led her to found in 2006 together with Miguel Laborde and a group of collaborators the Foundation and Center for Geopoetic Studies, "El Observatorio de Lastarria", a place to look at Chile. A large number of reflections on Chile and its Country identity were developed. The last management of the Lastarria Observatory was the last Act of Commemoration of the Bicentennial of Chile with the Poetic Act and support to receive the Bells of the Church of La Compañía de Jesus. These were donated by the people of Wales to the people of Chile as an act of solidarity for the earthquake and today they are located in the gardens of the Congress of Santiago. In 2014 Cazú Zegers re-founded the Observatory as Fundación + 1000, after giving a talk in Paris in the context of the annual meeting of the Institut de Geopetic Internacional, founded by Keneth White. The foundation belongs to this Institute since 2011, focusing on the virtual space through texts and weekly publications by Miguel Laborde.
The thesis that inspires his work is "living light and precarious", referring to a low-tech architecture but with a high experiential impact; understanding that the greatest value of Chile and Latin America is in his territory. He develops an architecture that does not seek to impose itself but to be a kind addition to Nature.
Latin America has something to say to the world, it is a way of doing and thinking with what is at hand, it is a low-tech stance that learns from local processes and their ancestral techniques, which allows living almost without leave a mark on the territory.
This same form of approach to the architectural problem and the question about Chile, led her to found in 2006 together with Miguel Laborde and a group of collaborators the Foundation and Center for Geopoetic Studies, "El Observatorio de Lastarria", a place to look at Chile. A large number of reflections on Chile and its Country identity were developed. The last management of the Lastarria Observatory was the last Act of Commemoration of the Bicentennial of Chile with the Poetic Act and support to receive the Bells of the Church of La Compañía de Jesus. These were donated by the people of Wales to the people of Chile as an act of solidarity for the earthquake and today they are located in the gardens of the Congress of Santiago. In 2014 Cazú Zegers re-founded the Observatory as Fundación + 1000, after giving a talk in Paris in the context of the annual meeting of the Institut de Geopetic Internacional, founded by Keneth White. The foundation belongs to this Institute since 2011, focusing on the virtual space through texts and weekly publications by Miguel Laborde.
