URO1.ORG Cooperative je skupina mladih arhitektov iz Santiaga de Chile, ki so mlajši od tridesetih let in se predstavljajo kot "laboratorij kulturoloških konceptov za prihodnost". Poslanstvo skupine ilustrira tudi njihovo poimenovanje, v kodificirani obliki je "uro" variacija besede "futuro", ki v španščini pomeni "prihodnost", številka "1" je dodana preprosto zato, da bi se izognili kakršnikoli zamenjavi z medicinsko terminologijo, pripona ".org" daje ime lastnim spletnim stranem, hkrati pa se sklicuje na celotno vsakodnevno kulturo množične komunikacije. V skladu s tem člani kooperative ne izključujejo ideje arhitekture kot potrošniške dobrine, hkrati pa zavračajo banalno in komercialno arhitekturo. V popolnem nasprotju s trenutnimi težnjami v moderni arhitekturi, ki mora biti trendovska in vsiljiva za vsako ceno, se URO1.ORG osredinja na skorajda tekstualno ustvarjanje avantgardne arhitekture, zamišljene kot kulturološki proces. Z vnovičnim približevanjem osnovnemu interesu klasičnega modernizma, pozabljenemu v poplavi formalnih pristopov preteklih desetletjih, vztrajajo pri socialnem značaju svojih projektov.
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URO1.ORG Cooperative is a group of young architects from Santiago, aged under 30, which defines itself as a "laboratory of cultural concepts for the future". Even the name of the group illustrates this, in codified form: "uro" is a subversion of the word "futuro", which in Spanish means "future", the number "1" is simply added to eliminate any confusion with medical terminology, and the extension ".org" gives the name of its own website, referring at the same time to a whole everyday culture of mass communication. Accordingly, the members of the cooperative do not exclude the idea of architecture as a consumer good, yet they reject commonplace and commercial architecture. In complete opposition to the actual tendencies of fashionable architecture, trendy and blatant at any cost, URO1.ORG focuses on an almost textual manufacturing of avant-garde architecture, intended as a cultural process. And, re-approaching an essential obsession of classic modernism, forgotten by the last decades' avalanche of formal approaches, they insist on the social character of their projects.
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