View largerPritzker Architecture Prize / 2016
Alejandro Aravena
Architect honour
The 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient record names Alejandro Aravena. Alejandro Aravena graduated from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 1992 and established his own practice in 1994. Since 2001 he has led ELEMENTAL, which works on housing, public space, infrastructure and transport with an emphasis on social impact. Its work includes reconstruction planning for Constitución after Chile's 2010 earthquake and tsunami.
Alejandro Aravena, recipient of 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.