Architect, Founding Partner | Elemental S.A.

Ale­jan­dro Ar­ave­na (1967), ar­chi­tect Uni­ver­si­dad Católi­ca de Chile, es­tab­lished Ale­jan­dro Ar­ave­na Ar­chi­tects in 1994. He was Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor at Har­vard GSD (2000-05) and is cur­rent­ly the El­e­men­tal-Copec Pro­fes­sor at UC. He is mem­ber of the Pritzk­er Prize Ju­ry  and has been named In­ter­na­tion­al Fel­low of the Roy­al In­sti­tute of British Ar­chi­tects (RI­BA). Pro­fes­sion­al Work in­clude Ed­u­ca­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties, In­sti­tu­tion­al, cor­po­rate and pub­lic build­ings, Mu­se­ums, Hous­es and Hous­ing. Awards in­clude the Sil­ver Li­on at the XI Venice Bi­en­nale, the Mar­cus Prize 2010, the Avon­ni Prize for In­no­va­tor of the Year and the Erich Schelling Ar­chi­tec­ture Medal 2006 (Ger­many) among oth­er prizes.Lec­tures have been held in The Lon­don School of Eco­nomics and RI­BA in the UK, Amer­i­ca´s So­ci­ety in NY, In­ter­Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank in Wash­ing­ton, Ex­per­i­men­ta De­sign in Por­tu­gal and De­sign Ind­a­ba Southafrica among oth­er places.Since 2006 is Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor of  EL­E­MEN­TAL S.A. a for prof­it com­pa­ny with so­cial in­ter­est work­ing in pro­jects of in­fras­truc­ture, trans­porta­tion, pub­lic space and hous­ing, part­ner­ing with Uni­ver­si­dad Catoli­ca de Chile and COPEC, Chilean Oil Com­pa­ny.