Alejandro Aravena

Details

Nationality

Chilean

Notes

Founded ELEMENTAL in 2001; 2016 Pritzker Laureate (first Chilean); curator of the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2016 ('Reporting from the Front'). Quinta Monroy, Iquique (2003/2004): 93 incremental 'half a good house' units; replicated in Monterrey (2010) and Villa Verde, Constitucion (2013).

Connections

• associated with Contemporary Global South Practice
• authored Quinta Monroy, Iquique
• associated with Aranya Low-Cost Housing

Sources

1. Quinta Monroy, Iquique. 2004.
2. Alejandro Aravena and Andres Iacobelli. ELEMENTAL: Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Manual. Hatje Cantz, 2012.
3. The Pritzker Architecture Prize. Alejandro Aravena: 2016 Laureate. 2016. https://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/2016.