Leonardo Quinteros Salazar is a Chilean architect who graduated from the University of Chile. During his university studies, in 2014, he won first prize in the CTES Underground Architecture Competition alongside Luis Pérez Huenupi for Jardín Botánico de Calama, a proposal connecting the Atacama Desert landscape with mining activities and the restoration of native plant species. In 2015, he received two distinctions at the National Undergraduate Projects Competition (CNPP) for Jardín Botánico Subterráneo and Muelle del Vestigio Fluvial.
In 2017, together with Tomás Villalón and Nicolás Norero, he won the public competitions for the Teatro Educativo de las Artes de Panguipulli and the new Municipal Building of Providencia in Santiago, Chile. The Teatro Educativo de las Artes de Panguipulli (2022), located beside the lake of the same name, received first prize at the 7th Architecture Works Competition of Wood Week in 2023 and was a winner at the 14th Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU), held in Brasília in 2026.
In 2022, he contributed to Dionaea. Monument in Tribute to the Women of Chile, a project by Josefina Guilisasti, Cecilia Puga, Paula Velasco and Bárbara Barreda, located in Santiago's Mapocho Río Park. In 2025, alongside Tomás Villalón and Agustina Zegers, he won the Las Ermitas National Pedestrian Bridges Competition in Lo Barnechea.
Alongside his professional practice, he pursues an academic career at the School of Architecture of Universidad Diego Portales.
