" My Architectural Philosophy? Bring the community into the process" Alejandro Aravena the 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate
Bring the community into the process
Alejandro Aravena the 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate
“If there is any power in design, that’s the power of synthesis.”
When asked to. build housing for 100 families in Chile ten years ago,
Alejandro Aravena looked to an unusual inspiration: the wisdom of
favelas and slums. Rather than building a large building with small
units, he built flexible half-homes that each family could expand on. It
was a complex problem, but with a simple solution — one that he arrived
at by working with the families themselves. With a chalkboard and
beautiful images of his designs, Aravena walks us through three projects
where clever rethinking led to beautiful design with great benefit.
Alejandro Aravena works inside paradoxes, seeing space and flexibility in public housing, clarity in economic scarcity, and the keys to rebuilding in the causes of natural disasters.
"You need to find the right question. There is nothing worse than answering the wrong question well."
Why you should listen
Throughout his career, Alejandro Aravena has grappled with what he
calls the “double condition of cities.” Attracting people, knowledge,
development and opportunities on one hand, the Chilean architect says
cities also concentrate and magnify social pressures. Through Elemental,
the firm he founded in 1994, Aravena has devoted as much time to the
design of iconic structures like the San Joaquin Universidad Catolica's
“Siamese Towers” and Santiago’s Metropolitan Park as he has to the
design of flexible and beautiful low-cost housing for low-income
families. The firm's work is not just about buildings, but about shaping
lives.
What others say
“Aravena's plans extend far from the standard considerations of building
and line, into theories of social organisation and civic engagement.
He's designing buildings, but he's also designing cities they will
occupy and the livelihoods of the people who will live in them.” — Bruce
Watson, The Guardian
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