Notebooks and Journals: A Creative and Academic Legacy at the PUCV School of Architecture and Design

This work explores the rich tradition of notebooks and journals developed by the faculty of the School of Architecture and Design at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV) from 1952 to the present. These notebooks represent a unique record of the creative, academic, and everyday processes of the teaching community, forming a living archive that documents their thoughts, works, and lives. The life and work notebooks of architects and designers such as Miguel Eyquem, Fabio Cruz, Manuel Casanueva, and José Balcells, among others, are not merely tools for documentation but dynamic entities that reflect the unfolding of thought, artistic creation, and philosophical reflection. In addition to their fundamental role in shaping new generations, these notebooks reveal a way of life that merges art, poetry, architecture, and design, offering valuable insights at both academic and cultural levels. This study examines how these practices, which seem to be fading in the face of digitization, still provide a rich and multidimensional methodology for student training and the construction of the cultural identity of PUCV.