BIOGRAPHY

PhD (UCL, UK), MA (UCL, UK), M.Arch (PUC, Chile), Arch (PUC, Chile).

Sol Pérez-Martínez is an architect, researcher and educator. After receiving her architecture and master’s degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Sol ran an architectural practice where she and her firm partners developed projects for private clients and the Chilean government. Their last public building in 2014 was a school in the South of Chile, which inspired her research about architecture, education and public engagement. Since then, Sol has collaborated with teachers, artists, architects and community groups in public history projects, curating educational programs, conferences and exhibitions to widen the public’s involvement in architecture and the built environment.  

Sol has lectured at The Bartlett as a module leader for the MSc Learning Environments and at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile as part of the undergraduate architecture programme. She has also been invited to present her work internationally, including at the Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Exchange, Slough Museum, Urban Education Live, Folkestone Triennale, Central Saint Martins and Max Planck Institute. Sol is an associate member of the Latin American Centre Zurich (LZZ) and a member of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), the European Network of Architectural History (EAHN) and the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA).

Sol holds a PhD in Architecture & Education from The Bartlett and the Institute of Education at UCL, as well as a Master in Architectural History from the same university. In addition, Sol has received grants and fellowships in support of her research from the Chilean Government, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Sol has participated as a consultant, critic, and advisor in community groups and universities in Chile and the UK. Currently, she is postdoctoral fellow at the Group Hultzsch (gta-ETH Zurich) in the project ‘Women Writing Architecture’. Her postdoctoral research focuses on the experiences of Latin American women writing about architecture and the built environment.

INVITED LECTURES

2022 NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY

‘Out of the Sandbox and into the City’

2021 FOLKESTONE TRIENNALE

‘Civic engagement in architecture and urban change’ 

2021 MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE, CENTRAL SAINT MARTIN’S 

‘Deschooling Architecture’

2020 MASTER IN SITUATED PRACTICE, BARTLETT

‘Awkward Practices’ 

2020 ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION

Bedtime Stories: ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’

2019 WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, LONDON

‘Urban Studies Centres’

2019 UNIVERSITIES COLLABORATE, LONDON

‘Urban Studies Centres’

2018 TATE EXCHANGE, LONDON

‘Civic Rooms’

2018 URBAN EDUCATION LIVE, VENICE

Keynote ‘Civic Rooms’. 

2018 BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON

‘Urban Studies Centres 1968-1988’

2017 CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS, LONDON

‘Urban Studies Centres: Architecture, Pedagogy and Politics’

2017 MASTER IN SITUATED PRACTICE, BARTLETT

‘Mediating architecture’

SELECTED CONFERENCES

2023 ICAG VI CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE & GENDER, SPAIN

‘Women Writing Chains: Mapping Citations Between Women Past, Present and Future’

2023 SAH MONTREAL, CANADA

‘Reading-with Frances Calderon de la Barca’ co-authored with Anne Hultzsch

2022 AIHU, MADRID, ESPAÑA

III Congreso de la Asociación Iberoamericana de Historia Urbana

‘Mujeres haciendo espacio en Chile 1800-1900. Santiago y la poeta popular Rosa Araneda’

2021 CIEDS, VILLARICA, CHILE

International Congress of Education for Sustainability  

‘Aula Abierta’

2019 AHRA CONFERENCE, DUNDEE

Collective Life 

‘Radical Urban Pedagogies’

2019 ARCHITECTURE, MEDIA AND POLITICS SOCIETY, NEW YORK

Education, Design and Practice – Understanding skills in a Complex World 

‘The Exploding (Architecture) School: Architecture and Urban Pedagogy in the City, the case of the Urban Studies Centres in Britain 1968-1988’

2018 BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON

Bartlett PhD Conference

‘Urban Studies Centres 1968-1988’

2017 ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATORS, OXFORD                

Architecture Connects

‘Urban Studies Centres 1968-1988: Mediating Architecture and the Built Environment through Education’                          

2017 MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE, FLORENCE

Education through Architecture and Work on the Self?

‘Urban Studies Centres 1968-1988: A Framework to Enhance Civic Agency through Urban Pedagogy’

2016 INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, LONDON

Institute of Education Summer Conference 

‘Civic Rooms: Encouraging Active Citizenship and Critical Awareness by Learning About the Built Environment’

2015 UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER

Chile Global Conference 

‘Encouraging Active Citizenship by Learning about Architecture’

SYMPOSIUMS

2022 SITUATING HER. WOMEN WRITING ARCHITECTURE

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

‘Hosting Marianne North: Encounters between Women, Places and Cultures in Chile, 1884’

2021 EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION 

Graz university, Austria

‘Colin Ward’

2021 RADICAL PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIMENTS SINCE THE 1930’S 

Slough Museum, USA

‘Urban Studies Centres’

2018 BUILDING DIVERSITY BAUHOW5 ALLIANCE

TU Delft - Netherlands

2018 VOICES OF WOMEN

Venice Biennale – Italy

2014 SYMPOSIUM WORD/IMAGE/ACTIVISM

Bartlett School of Architecture, London

‘Suffragettes Banners and Women’s Public Speaking’

'A QUIET REVOLUTION' A REVIEW OF THE ALLOTMENT BY COLIN WARD AND DAVID CROUCH

Pérez-Martínez, Sol. Stir the Magazine for The New Economy, 2024.

READING-WITH: A COLLABORATIVE METHOD FOR INCLUSIVE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIES

Hultzsch, Anne, and Sol Pérez Martínez. Architectural Histories 11, no. 1 (12 September 2023)

ÁFRICA Y SUDAMÉRICA EN LA BIENAL DE VENECIA ¿CONTINENTES ENTRELAZADOS? / AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA IN THE VENICE BIENNALE. SISTER CONTINENTS?

Pérez Martínez, Sol. Revista Materia Arquitectura 1, no. 24 (2023): 124–37.

MUJERES HACIENDO ESPACIO EN CHILE 1800 - 1900: SANTIAGO Y LA POETA POPULAR ROSA ARANEDA

Pérez-Martínez, Sol. Revista Historia y Patrimonio 2, no. 2 (30 June 2023): 1–30

WOMEN WRITING ARCHITECTURE 1700-1900: EXPANDING HISTORIES 

 With Anne Hultzsch. Zürich: Gta Verlag, (Forthcoming 2025)

LISTENING IN: CONVERSATIONS ON ARCHITECTURES, CITIES AND LANDSCAPES 1700-1900

Hultzsch, Anne, Sigrid De Jong, Sol Pérez-Martínez, Nikolaos Magouliotis, and Maarten Delbeke. Zürich: ETH Zürich, 2023.

‘CHALLENGING INSTITUTIONAL BOUNDARIES IN THE WORKS OF GIANCARLO DE CARLO, COLIN WARD, SHADRACH WOODS: A CONVERSATION’.

With Federica Doglio, Nicolas Moucheront, and Adam Woods. GAM. Grazer Architektur Magazin 18 (2022): 40–43.

DREAMING OF A POST-COVID WORLD: DRAWING MAPS, IMAGINED PLACES AND PANDEMIC STORYTELLING

With Kimbal Quist Bumstead, Livingmaps Review, no. 9 (November 2020): 1–24.

DESCHOOLING ARCHITECTURE

E-Flux Architecture, 12 March 2020.

IN ABSCENSE OF… JUST STORIES

With Ana Gisele Ozaki, Maura Lucking, Serena Dambrosio, Canadian Centre for Architecture, January 2020. 

LICEO POLIVALENTE NAHUELBUTA DE CONTULMO

With Pedro Hoffmann, and Francisco Correa. In Arquitectura y Ciudad. Architecture & City, edited by Francisco Diaz, 42–45. Santiago, Chile: Arq Ediciones, 2019.

SOVIET WORKERS’ CLUBS: ARCHITECTURE FOR A NEW CIVIC ORDER?

Scroope, Cambridge Journal of Architecture, Cambridge, UK, 2018

BOOK REVIEW: DISPERSAL PICTURING URBAN CHANGE IN EAST LONDON

Planning Perspectives, London, UK, 2018

CLUB ARCHITECTURE: A VESSEL FOR POLITICS, LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIOUR

Revista ARQ 92, Print, Santiago, Chile, 2016

GOBERNACION DE MALLECO EN ANGOL

Plataforma Arquitectura, Online, 2016

 GOBERNACION DE MALLECO EN ANGOL

Revista ARQ 92, Print, Santiago, Chile, 2015

CHOICE ARCHITECTS

Lobby The Bartlett Magazine, Online, London, UK, 2015

EN CONSTRUCCION: GOBERNACION DE MALLECO

       Plataforma Arquitectura, Online, 2014

DIGITAL BOND OFFICES

       Plataforma Arquitectura, Online, 2012

GOBERNACION DE LONQUIMAY

 Plataforma Arquitectura, Online, 2012

ARCHITECTURE BY ENGINEERS

Magister Arquitectura Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Online, Santiago, Chile, 2007

THE CHILEAN COUNTRY STATE

Historic Proximities to the Rural Architecture of the Chilean Central Valley

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Print, Santiago, Chile, 2006