Doświadczenie poetyckie Zachodu w Nowym Świecie
The Poetic Experience of the West in the New World

Summary/Abstract: At the end of the first half of the twentieth century architecture in the Chilean academic milieu accepted the idea of the avantgarde and European Modernism, which resulted in the emergence of utopian, albeit applicable in practice, educational programmes and models. Within them poetry became a language that steers professional undertakings. In the case of the School and Institute of Architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso from 1952 to this day, the author indicates the founding conception ideas, which granted a beginning to a new and unfamiliar way of comprehending architecture and design, together with a vision of America and its appearance in the poem: Amereida and the construction of Open City, merging life, work, and studies into a single whole. Those facts conceived as a “poetic experience” reveal a certain modality of American existence, which – contrary to the ideas of the West, Europe, and the “discovery” of the New World – is penetrated by an unknown of its own.

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