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Alejandro Aravena

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In thisSpanish name,the first or paternalsurnameisAravenaand the second or maternal family name isMori.
Alejandro Aravena
Alejandro Aravena in 2015
Born
Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori

(1967-06-22)22 June 1967(age 57)
Santiago,Chile
Alma materPontifical Catholic University of Chile
OccupationArchitect
AwardsGlobal Award for Sustainable Architecture(2008),Pritzker Architecture Prize(2016), Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development (2019)
PracticeElemental S.A.

Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori(born 22 June 1967) is aChileanarchitect and executive director of the firmElemental S.A.He won thePritzker Architecture Prizein 2016,[1]and was the director and curator of the 2016Venice Biennale of Architecture.[2]

Education and career

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Aravena graduated from thePontifical Catholic University of Chilein 1992, He continued his studies of Theory and Art History inUniversità Iuav di Veneziain Venice, Italy (1992–1993)[3][4]and established Alejandro Aravena Architects in 1994.[5]Aravena was a visiting professor atHarvard Graduate School of Designfrom 2000 to 2005, and is the Elemental-Copec Professor atUniversidad Católica de Chile.Aravena co-authoredLos Hechos de la Arquitectura(ARQ, 1999),El Lugar de la Arquitectura(ARQ, 2002) and the monographElemental: Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Manual(Hatje-Cantz, 2012).[6]He was a member of the Pritzker Prize Jury from 2009 to 2015, and is an International Fellow of theRoyal Institute of British Architects.[5]

In 2006, he became the executive director of ELEMENTAL, a for profit company with social interest.[7]

In July 2015, Aravena was named Director of theArchitecture Sectionof theVenice Biennale,with the responsibility for curating the 15th International Architecture Exhibition held in Venice in 2016, with the theme "REPORTING FROM THE FRONT."[8][9]In his curation of the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Aravena foregroundedsocial housing,incremental housing, rural-urban relationships, the balance between technology and natural materials, and an attentiveness to manual labor and handicraft.[10]Aravena invitedRaphael Zuber,Herzog & de Meuron,Tadao Ando,Peter Zumthor,David Chipperfield,SANAAandFrancis Kéré,among others.

Works

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Siamese Towers (2005) at the Catholic University of Chile.
Anacleto Angelini Innovation Center.

Aravena designed theinclined building"Siamese Towers," a workshop building at the school of architecture and faculty buildings at thePontifical Catholic University of Chile.He designed theColegio Huelquén Montessori;theCasa para una Escultora(House for a Sculptor); theCasa en el lago Pirehueico(House onPirihueico Lake); Hunt, Le Mans and Johnson residential halls ofSt. Edward’s UniversityinAustin, Texas;art workshops on theVitracampus atWeil am Rhein;Villa inOrdos(Inner Mongolia) and projects for the Elemental initiative. He also designed a children's playground at the Metropolitan Park of Santiago.[5]

Awards

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Aravena won the Silver Lion prize at the XI Biennale in Venice, theErich SchellingArchitecture Medal in 2006,[11]and was a finalist for theMies van der Rohe Award(2000)[citation needed]and the Iakhov Chernikhov Prize (2008).[12][citation needed]He received aGlobal Award for Sustainable Architecturein 2008.[13]He was a 2011 Index award winner and won aHolcim Awards Silver for Sustainable Construction(region Latin America).[14]Exhibitions of his work have included a showing at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2004, the São Paulo Biennale in 2007, theTriennale di Milanoin 2008, and theVenice Biennale of Architecturein 2008 andMoMA,New York in 2010.[citation needed]

In 2016, he was awarded thePritzker Architecture Prize— the most prestigious recognition to architects.[1]From 2009 to 2015, he was a member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury.[15]

References

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  1. ^ab"Announcement: Alejandro Aravena | the Pritzker Architecture Prize".Archived fromthe originalon 2016-01-14.Retrieved2017-09-14.
  2. ^"Alejandro Aravena curator of the 15th Architecture exhibition".Inexhibit magazine.
  3. ^"ALEJANDRO ARAVENA WORSHOP LEADER".Architecture Master's of Advanced Studies UPM/ETH in Collective Housing.
  4. ^Contal-Chavannes, Marie-Hélène (2009).Sustainable Design: Towards a New Ethic in Architecture and Town Planning(1st ed.). Birkhäuser GmbH. p. 178.ISBN9783764399382.
  5. ^abchttp:// abitare.it/festarch-2012-en/2012/05/03/alejandro-aravena/FestArch May 3, 2012
  6. ^Publishers, Hatje Cantz."Elemental | Architecture | Hatje Cantz".hatjecantz.de.Retrieved2016-01-29.
  7. ^"Elemental".
  8. ^Lusiardi Federica."Venice Biennale - Alejandro Aravena curator of 15th Architecture exhibition".Inexhibit.RetrievedJuly 19,2015.
  9. ^"Biennale Architettura 2016 2016 | Homepage 2016".La Biennale di Venezia.2017-04-28.Retrieved2021-05-19.
  10. ^Anagnost, Adrian (2017)."Craft and Conquest: The 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, May 28-November 27, 2016".Nonsite.
  11. ^"ARAVENA".Schelling-Architekturstiftung.Retrieved2022-05-24.
  12. ^"Arquitectura Pública Reciente - Giancarlo Mazzanti y Alejandro Aravena".Plataforma Arquitectura.31 August 2009.
  13. ^"Global Award for Sustainable Architecture".Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine.Retrieved2020-06-04.
  14. ^[email protected], LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction."Sustainable post-tsunami reconstruction master plan".holcimfoundation.org.Archived fromthe originalon 2016-03-04.Retrieved2016-02-24.
  15. ^«Jury Members - Pritzker Prize»
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