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Architecture & Interiors/2010/48 min/Reel № 10.001

ByAlejandro Aravena

Alejandro Aravena's low-cost housing solutions

Let It Out!/Recorded 2010

A close reading, kept within reach.

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The short version

Alejandro Aravena takes architecture & interiors as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in Chile in 2010, the conversation is grounded in Alejandro's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Looking to low-cost housing solutions, Alejandro Aravena propagates the building of half a good house.

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About the speaker

Alejandro Aravena

Santiago/Chile

Alejandro Aravena is the principal of Alejandro Aravena Architects and the executive director of Elemental, a do-tank focusing on projects of social impact.