Notebooks and Journals: A Creative and Academic Legacy at the PUCV School of Architecture and Design

Jaime  Reye; Marcos Mortensen Steagall

doi:10.24135/link2024.v5i1.240

Jaime Reye Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso of Technology
Marcos Mortensen Steagall (Translator) Auckland University of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24135/link2024.v5i1.240

Keywords: Academic legacy, architecture, cultural identity, methodology, notebooks

Abstract

This work explores the rich tradition of notebooks and journals developed by the faculty of the School of Architecture and Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV) from 1952 to the present. These notebooks represent a unique record of the creative, academic, and everyday processes of the teaching community, forming a living archive that documents their thoughts, works, and lives. The life and work notebooks of architects and designers such as Miguel Eyquem, Fabio Cruz, Manuel Casanueva, and José Balcells, among others, are not merely tools for documentation but dynamic entities that reflect the unfolding of thought, artistic creation, and philosophical reflection. In addition to their fundamental role in shaping new generations, these notebooks reveal a way of life that merges art, poetry, architecture, and design, offering valuable insights at both academic and cultural levels. This study examines how these practices, which seem to be fading in the face of digitization, still provide a rich and multidimensional methodology for student training and the construction of the cultural identity of PUCV.

Author Biographies

Jaime Reye, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso of Technology

Poet. Industrial Designer and Master in History at PUCV, PhD in Design at PUC Rio de Janeiro. He participates in the subject Amereida Workshop, in the construction of the university environment in the poetry-craft relationship. He teaches subjects of Introduction to Design and Architecture. He was head of the publishing workshop at its creation. He was for four years Director of the School's Master's programme, teaching especially in the Nautical & Maritime mention. In the current postgraduate programme he is a researcher in the area of ‘Education, Space and Learning’ and holds the chair of the ‘America Seminar’. Since 2007 he is the Head of the José Vial Armstrong Historical Archive.

Marcos Mortensen Steagall, Auckland University of Technology

Marcos Mortensen Steagall is an Associate Professor in the Communication Design department at the Auckland University of Technology - AUT since 2016. He is the Communication Design Postgraduate Strand Leader and Programme Leader for Communication Design and Interaction Design for Year 3. He holds a Master's (2000) and PhD (2006) in Communication & Semiotics acquired from The Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a PhD in Art & Design from Auckland University of Technology in 2019. Research interest focus on Practice-oriented research in Design through a Global South perspective.