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Chilean architect (born 1967)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Aravena and the second or maternal family name is Mori.

Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori (born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016,^[1] and was the director and curator of the 2016 Venice Biennale of Architecture.^[2]

Education and career

Aravena graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1992, He continued his studies of Theory and Art History in Università Iuav di Venezia in Venice, Italy (1992–1993)^[3][4] and established Alejandro Aravena Architects in 1994.^[5] Aravena was a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design from 2000 to 2005, and is the Elemental-Copec Professor at Universidad Católica de Chile.

Aravena co-authored Los Hechos de la Arquitectura (ARQ, 1999), El Lugar d