Cristóbal Amunátegui

Acting Assistant Professor

Cristóbal Amunátegui’s work in architectural history focuses on the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European architecture, with a focus on buildings produced in France between the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. In his research he examines the relationship of buildings, crowds, and their corresponding figures of investment and association. His work seeks architecture’s intersections with the visual arts, literature and the sciences, inscribing buildings in the wider nineteenth-century pursuit of “absolutes.” Articles about his research as well as on contemporary architectural issues have appeared in journals and essay collections in the US, Latin America and Europe. In 2011 Amunátegui co-founded the office Amunátegui Valdés, which comprises the architectural work he and Alejandro Valdes have developed since 2000. The first monograph of their work was published in March 2017.

Related topics
 Critical Studies, Entertainment
Related Links
 Amunátegui Valdés Architects
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University School of Architecture
MS.AAD, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Dipl. Arch., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Highlights
2019 “Modernism’s longue durée,” lecture given at Summer Academy in Rome, Virginia Tech & Architecture Exchange
2018 “The Société anonyme de l’Hippodrome,” lecture given at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
2017 “Unnatural Histories,” workshop taught at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna
2017 World of Fragments (Santiago: Ediciones ARQ)
2015 “Circles, Cycles, Circuits,” AA Files 71, 75-89
2015 “Things Made Whole,” lecture given at the Fall Lecture Series, Liverpool University School of Architecture
Image of an architectural drawing from 1881 showing electric lighting at Hippodrome de l'Alma in Paris.
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Architectural drawing from 1896 of the roof detail on the Hippodrome de l'Alma
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Photo from 1888 of the Hippodrome de l'Alma showing "The Japanese Ladder," a man climbing to the top of a ladder with a small drum at the bottom.
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Photo from 1885 of a group of affluent theater goers in the foreground looking out over the Hippodrome de l'Alma in Paris
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Image of front cover of issue Nº 71 of AA files Circles, Circuits, Cycles (Dec 2015)
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Image of front cover of issue Nº 4 of Potlatch (Spring 2016)
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Image of the cover of Amunátegui Valdés-World of Fragments (ARQ, 2017) showing an image of a hallway with a curved ceiling with a red tint
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  1. Electric Lighting at the Hippodrome de l'Alma, Le Génie Civil (1881)
  2. Hippodrome de l'Alma, Roof Detail, from Arthur Vierendeel, La Construction Architecturale en Fonte, Fer et Acier (Brussels, Paris, 1896)
  3. Albert Londe-Hippodrome de l'Alma, The Japanese Ladder (c. 1888)
  4. Alexandre Lunois, Course de chars a l'Hippodrome (c. 1885)
  5. Circles, Circuits, Cycles, AA Files Nº 71 (Dec 2015)
  6. Potlatch Nº 4 (Spring 2016)
  7. Amunátegui Valdés-World of Fragments (ARQ, 2017)
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