The building work of Italian architects Barison and Schiavon in Chile is analyzed, providing
new data on two buildings built in 1916. In the so-called palace Baburizza, vernacular
elements seen in the Chilean architecture of the late nineteenth century were assumed,
beyond the use of Italian liberty repertoires, while in the Valle palace, forms of the Venetian
medieval architecture are not copied, as it has been repeated in historiography. On the contrary,
their models are in the nineteenth-century “neo-medieval” works and, with the highest
incidence, in the repertoires of the contemporary architecture of Liguria, from where the
promoter of the work came. Finally other unpublished data on the trajectory of these two
architects are given, especially from its relations with contemporary architects such as Esteban
Harrington Arellano and Josué Smith Solar.
