PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Design - Staff, assistant, technical drawer, and internship Jun. 2018 - Aug. 2018
Livable Streets Alliance. Emerald Network Initiative • Feasibility report for greenway project in Hyde Park, Boston + first design proposal.
Mar. 2017 - Jun. 2017
URBE diseño y gestión urbana Ltda. • Industrial bridge and Los Batros wetland landscape design. • Junquillar urbanization landscape design.
Mar. 2013 - Aug. 2013
Vivienda Pasiva • Developing architectural pre-project of Ecologic Lodge Newen Peuma for Corralco, IX Region, Chile. • Responsible of the architectural project for two winter gardens at nursing home in Los Andes. • Proposing and evaluating first ideas for diverse private unifamiliar dwellings. • Developing a Residential Complex in Los Andes.
Constructora ARKEN diseño y construcción Mar. 2014
• Planimetric survey at Pichidangui dwelling for future interventions.
Jan. 2013
• Designed Punta de Choro’s outdoor barbecue project.
Aug. 2012
• Drawing plans for Zañartu’s project.
Mar. 2012
• One week replacement supervising the construction works at Renovation FASE office project.
Jan. 2011
Constructora Lobos y García • Developed extensions plans. Post 2010 earthquake • Processing building permissions and final reception for irregular reconstruction post 2010 earthquake.
Teaching – Teacher assistant Graduate School of Design. Harvard University Sep. 2018 - Dec. 2018
• Teacher assistant at Ecologies, Techniques, Tecnologies I.
School of Architecture and Urbanism. Universidad de Chile Mar. 2016 - Jul. 2017
• Teacher assistant at Architecture Studio I: Observation, representation, and habitat analysis1.
Sep. 2016 - Jan. 2017
• Teacher assistant at Architecture Studio II: Conceptualization of architectonic space.
Mar. 2015 - Jan. 2016
• Teacher assistant at Introduction to Design Studio.
Aug. 2014 - Aug. 2016
• Teacher assistant at Advanced Building course I: Traditional technologies. From vernacular architecture to sustainability. In three different semesters.
Mar. 2014 - Jul. 2014
• Teacher assistant at Advanced Construction I: Constructive Design in Wood.
1 “Studio I” and “Studio II” are two new courses in the renovated architecture’s program of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at Universidad de Chile. Both courses replace Introduction to Design Studio class.
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Research - Team member Oct. 2016 - Sep. 2017
Volunteer at Corporación cultura de paisaje en Chile (Landscape culture in Chile Corporation). Collaborator in the cartographic survey of project “Paisaje Minero, Urbano y Chileno” (Mining, Urban, and Chilean Landscape). Identifying abandoned or paralyzed mining areas that can be reclaimed and rehabilitated ecologically and culturally with useful programs for the metropolitan community. Registration, characterization, and mapping of those mines zones.
Mar. 2015 - Dec. 2016
FONDECYT “Initiation” Project Nº11130628: “ Rediscovering Vernacular Earthquake-resistant Knowledge: Identification and analysis of built best practice in Chilean masonry architectural heritage”. Funding by Chilean National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development, and directed by research responsible Dr. Architect Natalia Jorquera Silva. • Catalogue and classification of resilient buildings (built with fragile techniques) that persist at Santiago city center. • Mapping of study cases through ARCGIS. • Digitalization of Santiago’s historic building plans and urban material and heights cadastre between 1910 and 1939. • In-depth bibliographic compilation, • Conceiving, writing, and editing articles for indexed journals.
Oct. 2015 - Sep. 2016
Management office of Neighborhoods, Heritage, and Tourism. Ilustre Municipalidad de Providencia. Providencia’s popular heritage research. • Researcher of popular housing, specifically the cités through field visits, interviews, mapping and photographing. • Chapter’s drafting: “Cités de providencia, una forma de habitar” (“Cités of Providencia, a way to live”). • Direction of an architecture student’s internship as my research assistant.
SKILLS LANGUAGES
SOFTWARES
Spanish
Written
Native
Spoken
Office
Word
English
Written Spoken
3D modeling
Power Point
Revit Sketchup
Excel
Archicad Rhinoceros
2D drawing
Autocad
Edition
Photoshop Illustrator
Mapping
Indesign
Arcmap
After effects
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PUBLICATIONS RELEASED
Jorquera, N., M.L. Lobos, and D. Cortez (2018). Arquitectura y construcción. In N. Jorquera (Ed.) Iglesia de San Francisco. Arquitectura, construcción y comportamiento sísmico desde 1618. Santiago, Chile: Sa Cabana. ISBN 978-956-9082-14-6. Jorquera, N., M.L. Lobos, and D. Cortez (2018). Historia constructiva. In N. Jorquera (Ed.) Iglesia de San Francisco. Arquitectura, construcción y comportamiento sísmico desde 1618. Santiago, Chile: Sa Cabana. ISBN 978-956-9082-14-6. Lobos, M.L. (2017). Nociones de sostenibilidad en el patrimonio vernáculo del Valle del Choapa [Sustainability notions in vernacular heritage of Choapa Valley]. Revista Gremium V04-08. Patrimonio y sustentabilidad: 97-110. ISSN: 2007-8773 Lobos, M.L. (2017). Explotación de recursos naturales v/s paisaje protegido. El rol territorial de la arquitectura en el caso del Proyecto Hidroeléctrico Alto Maipo. In Urrutia J.P., C. Núñez, S. Simonetti (Ed.) Arquitectura no es solo obra. Santiago, Chile: 164-173. Jorquera, N. and M.L. Lobos (2017). Técnica y configuración material del centro histórico de Santiago de Chile a inicios del siglo XX. Una lectura desde los catastros municipales de 1910 y 1939. [Techniques and material configuration of Santiago’s historic center in the early 20th century. A reading from the 1910 and 1939 municipal cadasters]. Revista AUS 22-08: 46-52. DOI:10.4206. Jorquera, N., J. Vargas, M.L. Lobos, and D. Cortez (2016). Revealing Earthquake-Resistant Geometrical Features in Heritage Masonry Architecture in Santiago, Chile. On International Journal Of Architectural Heritage. Conservation, Analysis, and Restoration. ISSN: 1558-3058 (Print) 1558-3066 (Online). DOI: 10.1080/15583058.2016.1266414 Jorquera, N., M.L. Lobos, and C. Farfán (2015). Evolución de las características constructivas y estructurales de la arquitectura de Santiago de Chile entre los siglos XVI y XIX. En la búsqueda de un comportamiento sismorresistente. In Huerta, S. and P. Fuentes (Ed.) Minutes of the Ninth National Congress and First International Hispano-American Congress of Construction History. Volume II: 875-885. Instituto Juan de Herrera, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Spain. ISBN 978-84-9728-549-0 Lobos, M.L., N. Jorquera, and F. Pfenniger (2014). Sustainability notions in vernacular architecture of Choapa Valley. In Mileto, C., F. Vegas, L. García, and V. Cristini. (Ed.) Vernacular Architecture. Towards a Sustainable Future: 425-430. London: Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-1-138-025682-7.
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COMMUNITY / VOLUNTEER SERVICE Jul. 2013 - Dec. 2016
Member of Laboratorio Patrimonio Activo. A volunteer student organization created to help people to embrace and promote different kinds of heritages. • Photographic exposition in the context of the 40 years since the military coup. This showed that today there’s still repression in the demonstrations. • Elaboration of the official report requesting San Eugenio neighborhood to become a Typical Zone (Chilean Law 17.288 of National Monuments). • Seminar lectures about our project and discussion meetings with students. • Conducted heritage promotion guided walk routes.
Mar. 2010
Volunteer at Foundation Un techo para Chile. • Working at the construction of emergency dwellings post 2010 earthquake. Pichidegua, Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Region, Chile.
Jul. 2007
Volunteer at Foundation Un techo para Chile. • Recollecting funds for the program during weekends.
Jan. 2006
Summer volunteer at Organization for the Promotion of Women at Cunco, Araucania Region, Chile. Helping women from the organization with their tasks: working at flowers crops and elaborating artisanal jam.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS Jul. 2016
Award to the best student of the Graduate Diploma program. Given by the School of Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Studies from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Nov. 2015
Mario Recordón prize for academic excellence, reserved for students who achieve the best grades at the architecture college program and obtain the maximum grade at the career’s final project. Given by the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism from University of Chile.
Oct. 2015
First place at workshop “Uses and abuses of Santiago Centro’s space”. Given by both the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism and the Faculty of Social Science from Universidad de Chile.
Mar. 2015
Architecture Professional Degree with high honors. Best Final Grade of the Promotion achieving the ranking Nº1.
Dec. 2012
Bachelor’s degree with honors.
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CONGRESSES, SEMINARS, MEETINGS, AND WORKSHOPS Dec. 2016
Congreso Intersecciones (Intersections Congress). II Interdisciplinary Congress of Research in Architecture, Design, City, and Territory. Co-author of the presentation “Develando las características de sismorresistencia del patrimonio de Santiago de Chile.” Santiago, Chile, December 13 to 15.
Oct. 2015
Workshop “Usos y abusos del espacio en Santiago Centro” (“Uses and abuses of Santiago Centro’s space”). Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, and Faculty of Social Science, Universidad de Chile. Santiago, Chile, October 21 to 23.
Apr. 2015
Participation on the academic exposition in the XIX bienniale of architecture and urbanism of Chile. Author of research “Explotación de recursos naturales v/s paisaje protegido. El rol territorial de la arquitectura en el caso del Proyecto Hidroeléctrico Alto Maipo.” Valparaíso, Chile.
Sep. 2014
VerSus 2014 International Conference on Vernacular Heritage, Sustainability, and Earthen Architecture. Author of the paper “Sustainability notions in vernacular architecture of Choapa Valley”, and author of the lecture with the same name. Valencia, Spain, September 11 to 13.
Oct. 2012
Representative of the School of Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism from Universidad de Chile at the “Ocho al cubo Chile-Japón” workshop. Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. Valparaíso, Chile, October 3 to 7.
Oct. 2009
XVIII Latin-American Architecture Students Meeting “Building an Oasis”. San Juan, Argentina.
OTHER ACTIVITIES 2002 - 2009
Part of the traditional Spanish dance group at Estadio Español de Las Condes.
2005 and 2006
Two times member of the Student Government at high school.
AVOCATIONS AND HOBBIES Interests: Sustainability advocacy, visiting national parks, natural disaster effects, photography, citizen participation, and feminism. Hobbies: Hiking, yoga, biking, reading, camping, and cooking.
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