Montserrat Palmer (Santiago, Chile, September 13, 1933) is a Chilean architect, designer, academic, researcher, and editor.
She was the first female Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
The following year, she was hired as a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where she eventually became the first female Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Studies, leading the institution from 2000 to 2004.
"[5] Between 1980 and 2010, she was the Editor-in-chief of Ediciones ARQ, advocating for the technical dimension of architecture and for finding an aesthetic that arises precisely from architects' commitment to building materials.
"[6]In 2023, as part of the Chile Architecture Biennial,[7] architects Loreto Lyon and Cristobal Molina reinterpreted the Plaza de la Constitución pavilion, which references an intervention created by Montserrat Palmer for the 1972 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD III) in Santiago.