Incremental housing alejandro aravena biography

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.

Far from the usual aesthetically driven approach, Aravena explains that “We don’t think of ourselves as artists.

Incremental housing alejandro aravena biography

Architects like to build things that are unique. But if something is unique it can’t be repeated, so in terms of it serving many people in many places, the value is close to zero.” [1] For Aravena, the architect’s primary goal is to improve people's way of life by assessing both social needs and human desires, as well as political, economic and environmental issues.

Born in Santiago de Chile, Alejandro Aravena graduated from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 1992.

While teaching at Harvard University between 2000 and 2005, he met engineer Andres Iacobelli, with whom he founded