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Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori (born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016, and was the director and curator of the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Jun 22, 2019 · As founder of the “Do Tank” firm ELEMENTAL, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena (born on June 22, 1967) is perhaps the most socially-engaged architect to receive the Pritzker Prize.
Alejandro Aravena is a renowned Chilean architect and urban designer, who is widely recognized for his innovative and socially conscious approach to architecture. Born on June 22, 1967, in Santiago, Chile, Aravena studied architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he later became a professor.
Alejandro Aravena of Chile receives the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize He practices architecture as an artful endeavor in private commissions and in designs for the public realm and epitomizes the revival of a more socially engaged architect.
Oct 24, 2016 · Elemental, led by Alejandro Aravena, evolved this idea when commissioned to draw up a new master plan for Constitución, Chile, after it was hit by an earthquake of magnitude 8.8; the second...
Alejandro Aravena is the Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. He was a speaker at TEDGlobal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2014. He was a member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury from 2009 to 2015.
May 23, 2016 · This year's director, Pritzker prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena, took us through the show, which, for a change, celebrates design that solves human problems. The architect Alejandro...
When asked to build housing for 100 families in Chile ten years ago, Alejandro Aravena looked to an unusual inspiration: the wisdom of favelas and slums. Rather than building a large building with small units, he built flexible half-homes that each family could expand on.
Jun 18, 2024 · Alejandro Aravena (born June 22, 1967, Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean architect known for his socially conscious building projects that attempt to break down economic inequality in urban areas. In 2016, he became the first Chilean to win the Pritzker Prize.
Throughout his career, Alejandro Aravena has grappled with what he calls the “double condition of cities.” Attracting people, knowledge, development and opportunities on one hand, the Chilean architect says cities also concentrate and magnify social pressures.
