Francisco Ibanez

I am an architect, urban planner and photographer specialising in urban regeneration. I divide my time between managing urban regeneration projects as part of multidisciplinary teams, and working in audiovisual research projects on cities architecture, townscape and identity. My work in these two areas complements each other, allowing me to explore cities from different angles and perspectives in an attempt to understand their unique opportunities and challenges.

Through photography, I aim to pose questions on the temporal, emotional and formal perception of the city. My work challenges the fixed notion of permanence and reality by documenting the processes of urban transformation and focusing on certain elements that can be used as metaphors and triggers for broader discussions. I undertake prolonged photographic investigations. Usually, over months or years, I revisit several times the areas that I have photographed, aiming to achieve a series of images that critically reflect on the challenges and conflicts faced by urban transformations.

2015-16_MSc Urban Regeneration, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London
2015_UCL Bartlett Film Seminar
2014_Architecture and Landscape Photography, Catholic University of Chile
2005-2011_Architecture, Catholic University of Chile
2003-2005_Academic Bachelors Degree in Economics and Business Administration, Catholic University of Chile

Solo exhibitions
June-July 2019_Velorose Gallery, London, UK. The exhibition was part of the London Festival of Architecture
March-April 2019_Ekho gallery, Santiago, Chile
Group exhibitions
December 2020_Group exhibition ‘contemporary architecture photography’, Santiago, Chile
November 2019_Launching exhibition online gallery Collectio, Edificio Alonso, Santiago, Chile
March 2019_Spectacle and dissolution in the financialised city. Screening of film Vertical Horizons by Tom Wolseley and exhibition of series Non-Structures. UCL Bartlett School of Planning, London, UK
October 2018_Pic up prints, Tea Building, London, UK
June 2016_Extra-Ordinary: New Practices in Chilean Architecture, photography of project ‘Apus Kankay’ by Aguilo Pedraza Architects, Center for Architecture, New York, USA