As the director of the master’s in architecture program at the Universidad Catolica de Chile, Max Núñez observes: “There is a younger generation that is coming up with new ways of approaching architecture and theory—I think it is going to become very inspirational.” Núñez himself could be included in this category.
The Santiago, Chile–born architect, who founded his eponymous firm in 2011 (and has mostly worked for himself or with partners since he finished school in 2004), is in a good position to look forward, as well as back on his country’s unique brand of Modernism. After all, he grew up with a father who was, and still is, an architect practicing in Santiago. “Since I was a kid, I knew what architecture was about and what it takes,” he says. “I knew the good and not-so-good about the profession—and I knew I had to do my own thing.”
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