Housing and Industrial Heritage: The Oil`s Camps in Magallanes

Abstract

The discovery of oil in the Magallanes Region triggered the emergence of infrastructure and human settlements for exploration, exploitation, refining and transportation of its production. Local historiography has partially highlighted the architectural, landscape, historical and social value of this phenomenon, leaving aside the particularities of collective housing associated with the oil industry Chile ?s southernmost region. This paper presents the architecture of the oil ?s camps housing as a relevant dimension in the construction of industrial heritage associated with the oil industry between 1945 and 1972 in the Magallanes Region.