Mathias Klotz Germain is a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

, born in Viña del Mar on 13 April 1965. Studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (''PUC or UC Chile'') ( es, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) is one of the six Catholic Universities existing in the Chilean university system and one of the two pontifical universities i ...

, where he graduated in 1991. Winner of the Borromini Prize of

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

in 2001ROSTROS VILLA PANAMERICANA: Edificio Baeza Alzaga, de Mathias ...
El Informador – Feb 19, 2010 (quote:''"llegó el reconocimiento internacional: en 2001 fue distinguido con el Premio Borromini"'' for under-40 architects. Klotz together with

Alejandro Aravena Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori (born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016, and was the director and curator of the Architecture Section of the 201 ...

are among the most renowned Chilean architects of the early 21st century. His work, elegant and rooted in the

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tradition, has put him on the international spotlight. He is the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the

Diego Portales University Diego Portales University ( es, Universidad Diego Portales, UDP) is one of the first private universities founded in Chile and is named after the Chilean statesman Diego Portales. UDP has campuses in the Barrio Universitario de SantiagoA litera ...

in Santiago, Chile. His work, which has been published in international architectural magazines, includes: * Casa Klotz,

Tongoy Tongoy is a Chilean coastal town in the commune of Coquimbo in Elqui Province, Coquimbo Region. It is located to the south of Chile's second oldest city, La Serena, next to Guanaqueros beach, on a rocky promontory opposite the Pacific Ocean, ...

, Chile. 1993. * Casa Reutter, Cachagua, Chile. 1999. * Colegio Altamira, Santiago, Chile. 2000. * Casa Ponce,

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, Argentina. 2001–03.

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Chilean architects Chilean people of German descent People from Viña del Mar 1965 births Living people Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni {{Chile-architect-stub