GSA Boogertman+Partners International Lecture Series 2018 starts with Alejandro Aravena of Elemental. Alejandro Aravena, graduated as an architect from Catholic University of Chile in 1992. He continued his studies of Theory and Art History in IUAV in Venice. In 1994 he established his own practice, Alejandro Aravena Architects. From 2000 until 2005, he taught at Harvard University, where he founded the Do Tank ELEMENTAL with Andrés Iacobelli. In 2010 he was granted membership as an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He also curated the 15th Venice Biennale, and in 2016 he received the Pritzker Prize. Since 2001 he has remained principal director of ELEMENTAL.
See Poster for Details
ELEMENTAL (Alejandro Aravena, Gonzalo Arteaga, Juan Cerda, Victor Oddó, Diego Torres) is a Do Tank founded in 2001, focusing on projects of public interest and social impact, including housing, public space, infrastructure and transportation. ELEMENTAL´s fundamental approach is based on its participatory design process, in which it works closely with the public and end users. ELEMENTAL has built work in Chile, the United States, Mexico, China and Switzerland. In response to the 2010 earthquake and tsunami that hit Chile, ELEMENTAL was called to work on the reconstruction of the city of Constitución, where it was able to integrate the body of knowledge previously accumulated during similar experience elsewhere. ELEMENTAL´s methodology has proved useful throughout all of its urban undertakings concerning social and political conflict. ELEMENTAL is continually developing, and always seeking to contribute towards new fields of discourse.
If you want your own avatar and keep track of your discussions with the community, sign up to archiDATUM >>
The brief from the client required the design of a home for a family of four in a bushveld estate. The site is a bushveld plot of 1 hecta...
Calabar, the capital of the Cross River State situated by the scenic river delta at the outfall of the Calabar River Channel, is already ...
At the seaside just outside Tujereng, west Gambia, a house has been built for a family of three children and some bungalows to accommodat...
Mass Design Group’s zeal to offer architectural solutions that impact beyond the basic concepts of a building can sequentially be observe...
The main target regarding the LAP residential complex is not only to provide a luxury compound of modern villas with all the full residen...
The new FNB home loans and Wesbank building in the North of Johannesburg was designed in consortium with 3 other practices. It is an ecle...