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Sol Perez Martinez Biography

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Sol Perez Martinez Biography

BIOGRAPHY

PhD (UCL, UK), MA (UCL, UK), M.Arch (PUC, Chile), Arch (PUC, Chile).

Sol Pérez-Martínez is an architect, researcher and educator whose work examines how groups often excluded from architectural authorship have shaped, used and written about the built environment. After receiving her architecture and master's degree from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Sol ran an architectural practice where she and her firm partners developed projects for private clients and the Chilean government. Their last public building in 2014 was a school in the South of Chile, which inspired her research about architecture, education and public engagement. Since then, Sol has collaborated with teachers, artists, architects and community groups in public history projects, curating educational programs, conferences and exhibitions to widen the public's involvement in architecture and the built environment.

Sol has lectured at The Bartlett as a module leader for the MSc Learning Environments, at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile as part of the undergraduate architecture programme, and as a visiting lecturer in Britain and Switzerland. She has also been invited to present her work internationally, including at the Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Exchange, and CIVA Brussels, among others. She is the author of Nuns Reporting the City (ABE, 2026), Deschooling Architecture (e-flux Architecture, 2020 and 2024) and co-editor, with Anne Hultzsch, of Women Writing Architecture 1700–1900: Expanding Histories (gta Verlag, 2025) and Women Making Space in the Andes 1400–1900 (ABE, 2026).

Sol holds a PhD in Architecture & Education from The Bartlett and the Institute of Education at UCL, where her thesis recovered the history of Britain's Urban Studies Centres movement between 1968 and 1988 and developed the concept of situated pedagogies. Between 2022 and 2026 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Group Hultzsch (gta, ETH Zurich) in the ERC project 'Women Writing Architecture', where her research focused on the experiences of South American women writing about architecture and the built environment. She has received grants and fellowships in support of her research from the Chilean Government, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Society of Architectural Historians. Sol has participated as a consultant, critic and advisor in community groups and universities in Chile, the UK and Switzerland; she sits on the editorial board of Revista Materia Arquitectura, is an associate member of the Latin American Centre Zurich (LZZ), and a member of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), the European Network of Architectural History (EAHN) and the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA). Currently, Sol is visiting professor in the Master in Architecture at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and visiting researcher at the Chair of Architecture and Care, led by Prof Anna Puigjaner, at ETH Zurich.

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Lectures and Conferences

INVITED LECTURES

2025 CENTURY OF URBAN AGE, ETH ZURICH, SWITZERLAND

‘AI uses for Inclusive Architectural Histories’

2025 DIGITAL X DATA CONFERENCE, LSBU, UK

‘Digital tools for Inclusive Architectural Histories’

2025 ARCHITECTURE OF CHRONIC ILLNESS, NORWAY

‘Reading-with women: water, architecture and health’

2024 CIVA BRUSSELS

‘Methods for Inclusive Architectural Histories’

2022 NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY

‘The Adventure Playground: Out of the Sandbox and into the City’

2021 FOLKESTONE TRIENNALE

‘Civic engagement in architecture and urban change’

2021 MASTER IN ARCHITECTURE, CENTRAL SAINT MARTIN’S

‘Deschooling Architecture’

2020 MASTER IN SITUATED PRACTICE, BARTLETT

‘Awkward Practices’

2020 ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION

Bedtime Stories: ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’

2019 WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, LONDON

‘Urban Studies Centres’

2019 UNIVERSITIES COLLABORATE, LONDON

‘Urban Studies Centres’

2018 TATE EXCHANGE, LONDON

‘Civic Rooms’

2018 URBAN EDUCATION LIVE, VENICE

Keynote ‘Civic Rooms’.

2018 BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON

‘Urban Studies Centres 1968-1988’

2017 CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS, LONDON

‘Urban Studies Centres: Architecture, Pedagogy and Politics’

2017 MASTER IN SITUATED PRACTICE, BARTLETT

‘Mediating architecture’

CHAIRED PANELS

2025 IV CONGRESO DE LA ASOCIACIÓN IBEROAMERICANA DE HISTORIA URBANA, SAO PAULO

Mujeres e historia urbana en Latinoamérica with Pia Montealegre

2024 EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY NETWORK CONFERENCE, ATHENS

Women Making Space in South America c.1400-1900 with Anne Hultzsch

SELECTED CONFERENCES

2024 LEARNINGS/UNLEARNING, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

‘Situated pedagogies’

2023 ICAG VI CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE & GENDER, SPAIN

‘Women Writing Chains: Mapping Citations Between Women Past, Present and Future’

2023 SAH MONTREAL, CANADA

‘Reading-with Frances Calderon de la Barca’ co-authored with Anne Hultzsch

2022 AIHU, MADRID, ESPAÑA

III Congreso de la Asociación Iberoamericana de Historia Urbana

‘Mujeres haciendo espacio en Chile 1800-1900. Santiago y la poeta popular Rosa Araneda’

2021 CIEDS, VILLARICA, CHILE

International Congress of Education for Sustainability

‘Aula Abierta’

2019 AHRA CONFERENCE, DUNDEE

Collective Life

‘Radical Urban Pedagogies’

2019 ARCHITECTURE, MEDIA AND POLITICS SOCIETY, NEW YORK

Education, Design and Practice – Understanding skills in a Complex World

‘The Exploding (Architecture) School: Architecture and Urban Pedagogy in the City, the case of the Urban Studies Centres in Britain 1968-1988’

2018 BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, LONDON

Bartlett PhD Conference

‘Urban Studies Centres 1968-1988’

2017 ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATORS, OXFORD

Architecture Connects

‘Urban Studies Centres 1968-1988: Mediating Architecture and the Built Environment through Education’

2017 MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE, FLORENCE

Education through Architecture and Work on the Self?

‘Urban Studies Centres 1968-1988: A Framework to Enhance Civic Agency through Urban Pedagogy’

2016 INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, LONDON

Institute of Education Summer Conference

‘Civic Rooms: Encouraging Active Citizenship and Critical Awareness by Learning About the Built Environment’

2015 UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER

Chile Global Conference

‘Encouraging Active Citizenship by Learning about Architecture’

SYMPOSIUMS

2022 SITUATING HER. WOMEN WRITING ARCHITECTURE

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

‘Hosting Marianne North: Encounters between Women, Places and Cultures in Chile, 1884’

2021 EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION

Graz university, Austria

‘Colin Ward’

2021 RADICAL PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIMENTS SINCE THE 1930’S

Slough Museum, USA

‘Urban Studies Centres’

2018 BUILDING DIVERSITY BAUHOW5 ALLIANCE

TU Delft - Netherlands

2018 VOICES OF WOMEN

Venice Biennale – Italy

2014 SYMPOSIUM WORD/IMAGE/ACTIVISM

Bartlett School of Architecture, London

‘Suffragettes Banners and Women’s Public Speaking’

Publications

WOMEN WRITING ARCHITECTURE 1700-1900: EXPANDING HISTORIES

Hultzsch, Anne, and Sol Pérez Martínez. Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900: Expanding Histories. Zürich: Gta Verlag, 2025.

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'A QUIET REVOLUTION' A REVIEW OF THE ALLOTMENT BY COLIN WARD AND DAVID CROUCH

Pérez-Martínez, Sol. Stir the Magazine for The New Economy, 2024.

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READING-WITH: A COLLABORATIVE METHOD FOR INCLUSIVE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIES

Hultzsch, Anne, and Sol Pérez Martínez. Architectural Histories 11, no. 1 (12 September 2023)

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ÁFRICA Y SUDAMÉRICA EN LA BIENAL DE VENECIA ¿CONTINENTES ENTRELAZADOS? / AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA IN THE VENICE BIENNALE. SISTER CONTINENTS?

Pérez Martínez, Sol. Revista Materia Arquitectura 1, no. 24 (2023): 124–37.

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MUJERES HACIENDO ESPACIO EN CHILE 1800 - 1900: SANTIAGO Y LA POETA POPULAR ROSA ARANEDA

Pérez-Martínez, Sol. Revista Historia y Patrimonio 2, no. 2 (30 June 2023): 1–30

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LISTENING IN: CONVERSATIONS ON ARCHITECTURES, CITIES AND LANDSCAPES 1700-1900

Hultzsch, Anne, Sigrid De Jong, Sol Pérez-Martínez, Nikolaos Magouliotis, and Maarten Delbeke. Zürich: ETH Zürich, 2023.

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‘CHALLENGING INSTITUTIONAL BOUNDARIES IN THE WORKS OF GIANCARLO DE CARLO, COLIN WARD, SHADRACH WOODS: A CONVERSATION’.

With Federica Doglio, Nicolas Moucheront, and Adam Woods. GAM. Grazer Architektur Magazin 18 (2022): 40–43.

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DREAMING OF A POST-COVID WORLD: DRAWING MAPS, IMAGINED PLACES AND PANDEMIC STORYTELLING

With Kimbal Quist Bumstead, Livingmaps Review, no. 9 (November 2020): 1–24.

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DESCHOOLING ARCHITECTURE

E-Flux Architecture, 12 March 2020.

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IN ABSCENSE OF… JUST STORIES

With Ana Gisele Ozaki, Maura Lucking, Serena Dambrosio, Canadian Centre for Architecture, January 2020.

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LICEO POLIVALENTE NAHUELBUTA DE CONTULMO

With Pedro Hoffmann, and Francisco Correa. In Arquitectura y Ciudad. Architecture & City, edited by Francisco Diaz, 42–45. Santiago, Chile: Arq Ediciones, 2019.

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