Gonzalo Muñoz-Vera
Gonzalo Muñoz-Vera is a Licensed Architect with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Chile (2007). At McGill University, he obtained a MArch in History and Theory of Architecture in 2012, where he is currently a PhD candidate. His doctoral research studies the role of visuals in the construal of cities and cultures in nineteenth-century European colonialism. He has taught studio and 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
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);
Education
Ph.D. (candidate), Architecture, McGill University
M.S., Arch, University of Chile;
MArch, History & Theory of Architecture, McGill University;
B.S., Architecture, University of Chile
