2016-01-13
“Compared with those so-called “starchitects,” and their principally aesthetic set of concerns, Alejandro Aravena couldn’t be geographically or conceptually farther away: He is young, at 48; and almost all of his projects are in his native Chile. And, he is best-known for scrappy but effective social-housing projects, in which he leaves room for residents to invest their own work and resources to alter his designs.”