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Alejandro Aravena reflects on impact of his Venice Architecture Biennale, as anticipation mounts for 2018 exhibition
by Kim Megson | 23 May 2018
Pritzker laureate Alejandro Aravena has reflected on the impact of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, which he curated, in the run up to the 2018 edition the renowned international exhibition, which opens to the public on Saturday (26 May). Two years ago, Aravena’s Biennale, themed ‘Reporting from the Front’, considered major challenges facing the built environment – from natural disasters to financial constraints, pollution, crime, housing shortages and a scarcity
Alejandro Aravena and Elemental win architecture competition for Art Mill museum on Doha Bay
by Kim Megson | 15 May 2017
The architecture firm of Chilean Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena have won an international competition to design a “pre-eminent” Art Mill museum on the historic waterfront of Doha, Qatar. An international jury today (15 May) announced the selection of Elemental from an eight-strong shortlist, based on their strategies for the Doha Bay site and its links to the wider city. The museum will be built on a complex that has
ALEJANDRO ARAVENA: Architects 'must find balance between people's needs and desires'
by Kim Megson | 08 Aug 2016
This year’s Pritzker Prize winner, Alejandro Aravena, has told CLAD that architects and developers must do more to improve people’s quality of life when developing built environments. In an interview featured in the new issue of CLADmag, the Chilean architect said that even when people’s basic needs are provided for – such as shelter and warmth – a project has not succeeded unless it creates an environment where people can
Alejandro Aravena launches Venice Architecture Biennale with attack on developers who put profit before people
by Kim Megson | 26 May 2016
Alejandro Aravena has officially launched the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale by firing a broadside at decision makers and architects who put profit ahead of the public good when creating our built environments. “Banality and mediocrity in architecture are as damaging as not responding to basic needs,” said the Pritzker laureate at this morning’s (26 May) press conference for the festival, which he is curating. “Corporate architects [and developers] are the
Aravena and Piano among the architects in competition for Art Mill cultural district in Qatar
by Kim Megson | 21 Apr 2016
A shortlist of eight celebrated and emerging architecture practices has today (21 April) been announced for the final stage of an international architecture competition to design a waterfront arts district in Doha, Qatar. The studios of Pritzker winners Alejandro Aravena and Renzo Piano are in the running for project, called Art Mill, alongside other big names including EAA Emre Arolat Architecture and Atelier Bow-Wow. The site of the new district
Alejando Aravena will make his architectural plans free for all to use
by Liz Terry | 05 Apr 2016
Alejando Aravena, who was awarded the 2016 Pritker Prize in New York City on 4 April, has released open-source drawings for his practice's successful social housing designs. Aravena used his appearance at the Pritzker Conversation at the UN on 5 April to announce the drawings from four projects he deems to have been successful are now available to download from the website of his studio, Elemental. Aravena wants the documents
Pritzker Prize: Aravena and previous winners confirmed for panel discussion on architecture and the built environment
by Kim Megson | 31 Mar 2016
The 2016 Pritzker Prize Laureate Alejandro Aravena will next week join several other past winners of architecture’s most prestigious accolade to discuss the challenges facing the built environment. Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Richard Meier are among the other big names who will participate in the discussion – called Pritzker Laureates' Conversation: Challenges Ahead for the Built Environment – at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 5 April.
David Chipperfield Architects to introduce remote Sudan museum project at Venice Biennale
by Kim Megson | 17 Mar 2016
David Chipperfield Architects have been invited to participate in the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale with a contribution on their museum project in the ruined ancient city of Naqa in Sudan. The festival, curated by Alejandro Aravena, will be themed Reporting from the Front and will focus on the myriad of challenges facing architects around the world. Naqa contains the ruins of a former trading city that once belonged to the
Alejandro Aravena's star-studded Venice Architecture Biennale will be a battle for better built environments
by Kim Megson | 23 Feb 2016
The director of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Alejandro Aravena, has revealed that challenges facing the built environment will be the focus of this year’s festival. Aravena, who is the winner of this year's Pritzker Prize, has pledged to curate a show that demonstrates “there is not only a need, but also room for action” in improving the environments where people live, work, interact and relax. “There are several battles
Alejandro Aravena wins 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize
by Kim Megson | 13 Jan 2016
Alejandro Aravena of Chile has been selected as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate. The Pritzker Prize – widely regarded as architecture's highest accolade – honours a living architect or architects “whose built work demonstrates a combination of talent, vision, and commitment, and who has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment.” Since 2001, Aravena has been executive director of the Santiago-based studio Elemental. The firm,
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