Alejandro Aravena leans huge chimney against concrete house on Chilean coast
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has hollowed the huge tilted volume of this weekend getaway along the Pacific Ocean in Chile to form an opening for a fire inside. More
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Elemental ends internships amid growing row over unpaid work in architecture studios
Chilean architecture studio Elemental, led by Pritzker Prize winner Alejandro Aravena, has announced it is ending internships after getting caught up in a row about the practice of unpaid labour in architecture. More
Alejandro Aravena uses over 90 tonnes of recycled waste for entrance rooms of Venice Biennale 2016
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has used over 90 tonnes of waste generated by the Venice Art Biennale 2015 to create two introductory rooms for this year's architecture event (+ slideshow). More
Pritzker Prize winners hold one-minute silence for Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Pritzker Prize laureates paid tribute to Zaha Hadid at a private dinner before this year's Pritzker ceremony in honour of Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, which took place in New York on Monday. More
Alejandro Aravena makes housing designs available to the public for free
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, this year's Pritzker Prize winner, is releasing a number of his residential designs as an open-source resource to help tackle the global affordable housing crisis. More
Aravena rounds up architecture's biggest names for Venice Biennale 2016
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Tadao Ando, Peter Zumthor, David Chipperfield and SANAA are among the star-studded list of contributors announced for the Alejandro Aravena-curated Venice Architecture Biennale 2016. More
Architects have no moral obligation to society says Alejandro Aravena
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: socially minded architecture is a choice not a responsibility according this year's Venice Biennale curator Alejandro Aravena, who has called for "professional quality, not professional charity" to deal with the world's issues. More
Watch our short video about Pritzker Prize-winner Alejandro Aravena
Last week, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena won the Pritzker Architecture Prize. To celebrate, Dezeen has produced this short movie, which serves as an introduction to Aravena's work. More
Alejandro Aravena's Innovation Center UC photographed by Cristobal Palma
These new shots by Chilean photographer Cristobal Palma reveal the monumental cube structure of the UC Innovation Center – Anacleto Angelini by 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena (+ slideshow). More
Architects "are never taught the right thing" says 2016 Pritzker laureate Alejandro Aravena
Exclusive interview: universities are failing to give architects the training that will enable them to find solutions for an imminent global housing crisis, says 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena. More
Key projects by 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena
Following the news that Alejandro Aravena will receive this year's Pritzker Prize, here is a look at some of the buildings designed by the Chilean architect during his 22-year career (+ slideshow). More
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Alejandro Aravena named as 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has been named as the 2016 recipient of the Pritzker, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel prize, ahead of curating this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More
Refugee tents are a waste of money, says Alejandro Aravena
Tents are a quick response to the need for emergency shelter, but "it's money that melts" says Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 director Alejandro Aravena. More
Alejandro Aravena named as director of 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has been appointed as artistic director for the Venice Architecture Biennale, which will focus on the "battles to be won" to improve quality of life within the built environment. More
Giant openings puncture Elemental's "monolithic" concrete innovation centre
This concrete innovation centre at a Chilean university by Santiago studio Elemental has deep recessed windows designed to cool its network of communal interior spaces (+ slideshow). More
Ruta del Peregrino: Crosses Lookout Point by Elemental
Our fourth featured pavilion from Mexican pilgrimage route La Ruta del Peregrino is a precariously balanced viewing platform by Chilean architects Elemental. More
Chairless by Alejandro Aravena for Vitra
Milan 2010: at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan this week furniture brand Vitra present a strap designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena to be wrapped around the body and used instead of a chair. More
Elemental Monterrey by Elemental
This housing complex in Mexico by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena of Elemental is the winner of the architecture award in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Awards. More
Quinta Monroy by Alejandro Aravena
Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us these images of Quinta Monroy residential development, designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena of Elemental. More
SANAA and Alejandro Aravena at Vitra Campus
Japanese architects SANAA and Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena are constructing new buildings at the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany. More