Prior to establishing her own firm in 1995, she worked as editor of Revista CA, the official magazine of the College of Architects of Chile.
As founder of Cecilia Puga Arquitectos, her professional work has been exhibited in Chile and the United States and includes single-family houses, an apartment building, interiors of shops and offices, a chapel, and the master plan for the recovery of old buildings of the Southern Cone Vineyard in Chimbarongo.
[1] In 2009, her studio was one of the 100 offices worldwide selected by Herzog & de Meuron to design a villa in Inner Mongolia in the context of the Ordos 100 project.
[9] For the 2012 Venice Biennale, she was invited to be part of Valerio Olgiati’s installation named Pictographs - Statements of contemporary architects.
[12] In 2014, Puga, alongside Chilean architects Paula Velasco and Alberto Moletto, won the international architecture competition for the recovery of Pereira Palace,[7] an abandoned 19th-century neoclassical mansion turned into Ministry of Cultures in Chile.