Gonzalo Muñoz-Vera

Assistant Professor

Gonzalo Muñoz-Vera is a Licensed Architect with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Chile. At McGill University, he obtained a Ph.D and a MArch in History and Theory of Architecture. His doctoral research studied the role of visuals in the construal of cities and cultures in nineteenth-century European colonialism. He has taught studio and architectural history courses in Canada at the University of Toronto, McGill University, Carleton University, and Concordia University, as well as in Chile at the University of Chile and the Federico Santa Maria Technical University.

Visual Culture, History & Theory of Architecture, Architectural Representation, Latin American Architecture, Social Housing

ARCH 3015, ARCH 3016, ARCH 3054, ARCH 4034, ARCH 4514, ARCH 4515.

Munoz, G. (Ed). (2020) La Arquitectura en Chile a través del Boletín del Colegio de Arquitectos (1944-1963). Santiago, Chile: Andros.
Munoz, G. (Ed). (2011) El Rol de la Fotografía en la comprensión y difusión de la arquitectura. La Revista CA 1968-2008. Santiago, Chile: Andros.
Munoz, G. (2024) By Right or Might: notes on the MPL-Collective's self-managed social housing projects, in 112th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Disruptors on the Edge, Vancouver, Canada, p. 706-712.
Munoz, G. (2022) Colonizing lands and cultures: The London of Jemmy Button, in Curricular and Architectural Encounters with W.G. Sebald: Unsettling Complacency, Reconstructing Subjectivity, ed. Teresa Strong-Wilson, Routledge, p. 95-115
Munoz, G. (2022) Moving images, moved spectators: Jon Rafman’s Sculpture Garden and the Panorama experience, in Journal of Art History (RHA-W), 11. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, p. 73-84.

Travel Grants for Emerging Faculty (2024), ACSA College of Distinguished Professors: Peter Guo-Hua Fu - Writing Dissertation Award (2021), School of Architecture, McGill University; Dr. Rhonda Robinson IVLA Scholarship (2020), International Visual Literacy Association; Favretto Sketching School Award (2019) School of Architecture, McGill University; National Council for Culture & Arts Research Grants, Chile (2010 &, 2019);