Alejandro Aravena
Providencia, Santiago, Chile,

Ale­jan­dro Ar­ave­na (1967), ar­chi­tect of the Uni­ver­si­dad Católi­ca de Chile, es­tab­lished Ale­jan­dro Ar­ave­na Ar­chi­tects in 1994. He was Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor at Har­vard GSD (2000-2005) and and has been named In­ter­na­tion­al Fel­low of the Roy­al In­sti­tute of British Ar­chi­tects (RI­BA). He is cur­rent­ly mem­ber of the Pritzk­er Prize Ju­ry. His pro­fes­sion­al Work com­pris­es Ed­u­ca­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties, In­sti­tu­tion­al, Cor­po­rate, Cul­tur­al and Pub­lic build­ings, Hous­es and Hous­ing, and prod­ucts like Chair­less, man­u­fac­tured by Vi­t­ra. He has re­ceived Awards such as the Zum­to­bel Group Award in 2014, Erich Schelling Ar­chi­tec­ture Medal in 2006 (Ger­many), the Sil­ver Li­on at the XI Venice Bi­en­nale, the Mar­cus Prize in 2010 and the Avon­ni Prize for "In­no­va­tor of the Year".