A person i admire in my field

Hello Everyone!!


Today I have to write about someone I admire in my field, but actually, i don`t really know much about architects so it's kind of hard for me. But recently  I´ve been looking for some information about a famous architect I was interested to know, his name is Alejandro Aravena and i really admire what he has done so i´d like to share with you about it.


He was born in 1967 in Chile in a middle class family, his parents were teachers at a private school. He graduated from architecture at "Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile" in 1992, and he's been working as an architect since 1994.

He have won a lot of prizes because of his work, including the Pritzker Prize which is the equivalent to the Nobel Prize, but of architecture. His work includes from innovating and contemporany buildings like education centers, institutional buildings, offices, public services offices, museums and libraries to social housing. 

I particulary admire his social commitment which is reflected in his work on social housing which main objective is the "increase posibility", which means that the family can improve their house with time and elevate the price of the property.
He also had an important role helping to reconstruct the city of copiapo after the tsunami in 2010 by proposing a "wall" of trees near to the coast, solving 2 problems at once; the lack of green areas and the floods.

This are just a few of his works, he has many other projects orientated to society and the poorest part of it. 

"Centro de Innovación UC Anacleto Angelini"

"Quinta Monroy" social housing project in Iquique