Architecture & Interiors/2018/54 min/Reel № 18.001
ByAlejandro Aravena
When a natural disaster occurred in Chile, Alejandro Aravena and his team set out to rebuild the city
Embrace the Unknown/Recorded 2018
A close reading, kept within reach.
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 2018, 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.
The architect tackles the reconstruction of a city through public participation.
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.
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