Cristóbal Amunátegui
Assistant Professor
Cristóbal Amunátegui is a historian of early modern and modern European architecture. His recent research investigates the intersection between architecture, crowds, and trade in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. Other theoretical interests include the reception of art-historical methods in architectural history, and the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century historiography across disciplines. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the relationship between buildings, gambling, and speculation in 1860s-80s France.
Amunátegui’s essays and book reviews have appeared in Grey Room, Critical Inquiry, Faktur, and AA Files, among others. His past editorial work includes the journal Potlatch (Columbia GSAPP), and a membership on the editorial board of the architecture quarterly ARQ (Santiago, Chile). He has previously taught at Columbia University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. In 2011 Amunátegui co-founded the office Amunátegui Valdés, which comprises the architectural work he and Alejandro Valdes have developed since 2004.
Related topics |
Critical Studies |
| Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory (Dist), Princeton University School of Architecture |
| MS.ADD, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation |
| B.Arch., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| 2025 (forthcoming) | "The Trouble with Theory," in "Theory's History: Reflections on the Institutional, Economic, Political and Cultural Conditions of Architectural Discourse in the Last Half Century," ed. Joseph Bedford (Leuven: KU Leuven University Press, forthcoming 2025) |
| 2024 | "Order for Profit: On the Architecture of a Nineteenth-Century French Agency," "Grey Room" #95 (Summer 2024) |
| 2021 | Review of Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 2020), by Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May, Critical Inquiry (October 2021) |
| 2020 | “Compendium: On a Way of Articulating Realities,” exhibition at LIGA, Mexico City, October 2020 |
- "Order for Profit: On the Architecture of a Nineteenth-Century French Agency," "Grey Room" #95 (Summer 2024)
- “Incorporations,” Faktur No. 2 (2019)
- “Circles, Cycles, Circuits,” AA Files No. 71 (2015).
- Potlatch Nº 4 (Spring 2016)