Pritzker 2016. The Chilean Alejandro Aravena was awarded the highest award of architecture.
“Practice architecture with effort and ingenuity in both the private and the public, and is the epitome of socially engaged architect”. With those words, the Pritzker Prize jury dedicated to Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena as the 2016 winner of the highest award of the profession, also making it the fourth Latin American to win the prize (the above were the Mexican Luis Barragan, 1980 and Oscar Niemeyer and Brazilian Paulo Mendes da Rocha, in 1988 and 2006 respectively).
Aravena, 48, is the 41st recipient of the award, and the second youngest person to be awarded (the youngest was Ryue Nishizawa, who was 44 years old to receive in 2010), and until 2013 was Pritzker Prize jury
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After hearing the news, Aravena said in an email he was “deeply grateful” and stressed that “no recognition can be individual, since the architecture is a collective profession.” His preaching in that regard is in line with the Japanese Shigeru Ban, winner of the prize in 2014. Architecture as a collaborative process where users and professionals work together towards finding the best possible solution
In a 2014 TED talk , argued that the only way to cope with the challenge of rapid urbanization that runs through much of the world is to bring people into the design process. The study and work around the informal settlements have thus become a central plank of its work with social housing in Chile, where housing has implemented a unique model that has been implemented in many parts of the country.
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Aravena living in Santiago de Chile and owns Elemental study. In an interview with the Chilean newspaper La Tercera, the architect says that the name refers to “a chemical element that can not be decompressed more, which has come to its purest state.” “We aim to have the maturity to strip our buildings all kinds of mannerism and ego, to stay in a highly relevant result “, he added.
The work process Elemental and Aravena put into practice in the field of social housing is probably one of the most innovative and unique that fall within this scope. According Aravena, it is essential to formulate the right question: What is the real problem of social housing? Is it a problem that the house are girls, is that only serve to solve the “roof” of the poorest? Is it a herramenta to overcome probeza?
In this sense, Aravena works with the concept of” social housing progesiva “, an idea born as a way to deal with low budgets that governments allocate the area, providing homes to cover basic needs and also generate value over time at unbelievably low prices.
“Instead of investing all resources in a finished and bad design home as they do in social plans, with this system the money ‘average good home’ is reversed, and the other half is planned for the end their owners in accordance with their capabilities and their criteria, “Aravena said in his lectures that gives worldwide. With this system, Elemental already built more than 2,400 homes in Chile.
Aravena also has works outside the area of housing, such as the Innovation Center UC Anacleto Angelini (Santiago de Chile), in 2014 won the Design of the Year, awarded the Design Museum of London Prize. Within the campus of the Catholic University of Chile he has also made the School of Medicine (2004), the School of Architecture (2004) and the School of Mathematics (1999). He is currently building a site for the pharmaceutical company Novartis in Shanghai, China, a building that will feature office space can adapt to different working modes, from the individual to the collective, from the formal to the informal.
Elemental also worked in construction after the earthquake that struck Chile in 2010. The larger is the project to rebuild the city faced Constitution, one of the most devastated by the earthquake.
After considering a number of proposals, it was decided to consult local people about what they wanted. The conclusion of this survey was that, while it was necessary to create works to alleviate the effects of a natural disaster, there were situations that required more urgent attention, such as flooding rain that occur every year and the absence of quality public spaces. The decision was then design and build a forest between the water and the city that meets both functions, providing protection also come if another disaster on the scale of a tsunami occurring.
Innovation Center Anacleto Angelini
Office Building Novartis, Shanghai, China (2015 – under construction)
In May is expected to start the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2016 where Aravena happen Rem Koolhaas as director and chief curator. Under the title “Reports from the Front” (Reports from the Front), the event will seek to bring the reality of what is happening in the wider “margins” of the profession to the public. Chile will stage “the different ways in which the architecture is able to escape from the status quo.” “We want to show projects, despite the difficulties, seek to propose solutions. That in the debate to improve the quality of architecture, not only no need for concrete work, but there is also room to do so”, he added.
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