Building Quinta Monroy Social Housing
Architects ELEMENTAL
Project Team Alejandro Aravena, Alfonso Montero, Tomás Cortese, Emilio de la Cerda, Andrés Iacobelli
Structural Engineering José Gajardo, Juan Carlos de la Llera [MORE...]

Second part of the interview to Alejandro Aravena [1967 - ], executive director of ELEMENTAL, principal of Alejandro Aravena Architects.

In this second part, we asked Alejandro Aravena about his position on the center-periphery issue [MORE...]

First part of the interview to Alejandro Aravena [1967 - ], executive director of ELEMENTAL, principal of Alejandro Aravena Architects. He studied at Universidad Católica School of Architecture, Santiago, Chile [1992]. His work, like the School of Mathemathics of Universidad Católica, has been awarded internationally. [MORE...]

Filmed and edited during August and September 2007, using non-professional cameras and basic edition software, Chile: Public Works 1997-2007 is an effort to present three different threads into one single product: [MORE...]

Filmado y editado entre Agosto y Septiembre del año 2007, utilizando cámaras no profesionales y software edición básicos, Chile: Obras Públicas 1997-2007 presenta tres textos que se entrelazan en un solo producto: [MORE...]

Building Renca Altumalal Project
Architects ELEMENTAL
Consultancy JUNDEP
Program Social Housing
Client Chilean Government / JUNDEP / Coordinadora de Campamentos y Comité de Allegados Construyendo Nuestro Futuro
Constructed Area 28773 sqm [MORE...]

Sharing the same kind of ambition, with only 7 years between them -while their worries [and projects] are the complete opposite-. Ladies and gentlemen: Alejandro Aravena & Bjarke Ingels.

Both of them know the importance of image and how essential it is for project promotion. They don’t belong to the starsystem -whose stars never need to move their lazy asses from their desks to get commissions; on the contrary, both show proper self-managment and media impact usage as essential part of their way of doing things. [MORE...]

We were invited by El Museo del Barrio to be part of their exhibit for Open House New York Weekend 2007, the biggest Architecture and Design event of the United States.

The product we propose, CHILE: 1997-2007 PUBLIC WORKS [soon available in 0300TV]. [MORE...]