Albert Tidy

Albert Tidy has been appointed to lead the creation of the Architecture program at the prestigious Universidad de los Andes in Chile. In his role as Director of the School of Architecture, he will oversee the launch of the program, with classes scheduled to begin in March 2027.

The project is conceived as a reflective reconsideration of the discipline at a pivotal moment in architectural education. Its primary focus is architectural design, grounded in a rigorous technical and theoretical foundation and distinguished by a strong humanistic ethos. Within this framework, beauty is understood as a legitimate and essential architectural concern, conceived as part of the discipline’s enduring pursuit of truth.

On August 31, 2025, my brother Ian and I were invited to design a space entitled “Casa 21” as part of the exhibition 100% Cocinas, organized by Revista Ambientes. We would like to extend our gratitude to Nelson Ebensperger, Director of the Exhibition, as well as to our sponsors: Pendini, SMEG, BMW, Cannon, Bercia, Bette, and FV.

Our proposal articulates a condition of spatial continuity through functional partitions that conceal the quotidian elements we prefer to withdraw from view. The project may be understood as an exploratory exercise—one that, through subtraction and the absence of color as a supporting medium, seeks to propose an alternative mode of inhabiting silence.

While this deliberate contrast was conceived in relation to the broader exhibition, the space was equally envisioned as a complement to it. The points of access and the internal circulation strategy were therefore designed to integrate seamlessly with the exhibition’s overall perimeter flow, establishing both autonomy and continuity within the curatorial framework.

We are pleased to announce that our project Factoría Italia has been awarded First Prize in the Works Category at the XXIII Chilean Architecture Biennial. This achievement crowns a twelve–year trajectory marked by discontinuous progress, shaped by episodes of social unrest, economic downturns, global pandemics, and limited investment. Despite these constraints, the project—currently in the process of completing its third development phase—has been widely acknowledged and positively received by its users as a meaningful contribution to the public realm from a privately driven initiative. Factoría Italia has succeeded in reactivating and revalorizing the industrial heritage of Santiago de Chile, consolidating itself as a contemporary architectural intervention that mediates between memory, adaptive reuse, and urban regeneration, while reaffirming the relevance of industrial patrimony as a catalyst for social and spatial transformation.

Construction of the Casa Paula project will commence in March within the Guanay condominium, located in the municipality of Puchuncaví. The 320 m² single-family dwelling, executed entirely in timber construction, opens itself toward distant views of Horcón and the Pacific Ocean, while remaining hermetically closed to the street in order to safeguard domestic privacy. A continuous ribbon window on the second level enables controlled northern light to penetrate the interior spaces, contributing to both passive environmental performance and spatial continuity.

The Factoría Italia project (TCL Tidy + Cáceres + Lazo) was selected for the upcoming XIII edition of the Chilean Architecture Biennale in the «Works» category. The call for this edition of the exhibition, under the title «Double Exposure,» «aims to highlight practices capable of rethinking, reprogramming, and reconstructing the pre-existing, at a time when ecological, social, and material urgencies demand that we imagine new ways of inhabiting.»

On June 24th at 3:00 PM, a lecture will be held in the Auditorium of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, showcasing recent work by Albert Tidy Arquitectos. This inaugural cycle organized by the Architecture Department under the curatory of Director Rodrigo Chauriye, brings together a series of independent practices led by faculty members of the school

«The Big SEE Architecture Award Event took place in Portorož, Slovenia, on May 22–23, 2025. On this occasion, the Big SEE Award Winner Prize in the Residential Houses category was presented to the office Albert Tidy Arquitectos for the project ‘Casa Lagos Laval’.»

Phillip Jodidio, renowed editor for Taschen included our project «Amorío Restorant» in a beautiful two volumes book shwcasing different contemporary architecture proyects buit in this noble material.  

The official journal of the Association of Architecture Offices of Chile (AOA), in its Issue No. 37, featured the winning projects of the private competition for the new building of the Chilean Army War Academy. Our firm was awarded First Honorable Mention.

The renowned Chilean art and design magazine Ambientes, in its Issue No. 127, features an extensive article on Casa Cardinal, a residential project designed in the town of Litueche, near the coast of Chile’s Sixth Region.

In September 2017, the architectural project Factoría Italia (Albert Tidy + Daniel Lazo + Gabriel Cáceres) was awarded the Geste d’Argent Prize, in recognition of its urban contribution to the public realm. The award ceremony took place at the Louvre Museum, and our firm was the only Latin American representative at the event.

The Vienese publishing house Phaidon released a book edited by Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill, titled «Ornament is Crime: Modernist Architecture», which brings together one hundred contemporary architectural works that, according to the editors’ curatorial vision, embody the principles of modernist architecture. It is an honor for Albert Tidy Arquitectos to have been included in this publication with the project Scholnick House.