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The fortress-like facade of the 17,000-ton Angelini Innovation Center in Santiago, Chile, which Alejandro Aravena designed for the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2011. CreditPhotograph by Anthony Cotsifas There is an excellent story in...

Good-looking, charming and a celebrity in his native Chile, the surprise winner of this year’s Pritzker cares more about solving social problems than exercising his artistic chops.

By William Harris. Gifu Media Cosmos – Toyo Ito. Photograph © Iwan Baan Toyo Ito’s first building was a house in Tokyo that he designed for his sister. Her husband had just died. From above, the house looked like a fortress, its blankness refusing...

Siamese Towers at the Catholic University of Chile , by Alejandro Aravena and ELEMENTAL (file via Wikimedia, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license). Many of us became aware of the announcement last week: The Hyatt Foundation...

“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...