In order not to forget: the voice of Montserrat Palmer and the contemporary architectural discourse in Chile/Contra el olvido: la voz de Montserrat Palmer y el discurso de la arquitectura contemporanea en Chile/Contra o esquecimento: a voz de Montserrat Palmer e o discurso da arquitetura contemporanea no Chile

Female architect, professor, researcher, editor, Montserrat Palmer Trias was a voice with authority in the Chilean architectural and cultural scene between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. As chief editor of ARQ, she had an active role in the definition of the disciplinary debates while installing a group of Chilean architects, whose notoriety was built by the pages of the magazine, on the international scene. Although she fed the myth of a woman who bases her work on intuition, it is impossible to let her rigorous activity as a researcher go unnoticed. Paradoxically, a decade after leaving the direction of the magazine, her figure and her contribution to the Chilean architecture of the post-dictatorship is risking a fall into oblivion. This article is an attempt to prevent this from happening.