Loreto Lyon (born in

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in 1979) is a Chilean architect, academic, and co-curator of the Chilean pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Education

Lyon graduated with a degree in architecture from the

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC Chile; ) is a traditional private university based in Santiago, Chile. It is one of the thirteen Catholic universities existing in Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical univ ...

in 2005 and obtained a master's degree in Environmental Design and Engineering from

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in 2011.

Career

Lyon worked with Chilean architect

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between 2005 and 2010. In 2012, she co-founded Beals Lyon Arquitectos with Alejandro Beals, winning design projects such as the YAP_Constructo 2012 installation, the City Hall of Nancagua, and the new building over the Plaza de Armas Station on Line 3 of the

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. In the academic field, Lyon has been invited as a professor for WAVE, the summer workshop of the Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia in Italy, and workshops at

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in the United States. Moreover, she has been a faculty member at the School of Architecture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile since 2012. In 2022, Lyon became the director of the School of Architecture in Santiago at

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. That same year, she was appointed director of the

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, alongside Cristobal Molina. In 2023, she was chosen as co-curator of the Chilean pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale that same year with the proposal '' Moving Ecologies'', alongside Gonzalo Carrasco and Alejandro Beals.

References

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