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Alejandro Aravena
Alejandro Aravena graduated from the Universidad Católica de Chile in 1992 and established his own practice in 1994.
Background & practice
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. The official biography also records his role directing the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.
How to read the work
Treat design as an instrument of public interest, linking housing and infrastructure decisions with social consequences and the practical needs of communities facing reconstruction and urban change.
Practice leader and architect explicitly named; ELEMENTAL's partner collaboration is retained.
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