Following the news that Alejandro Aravena will receive this year's Pritzker Prize, here is a look at some of the buildings designed by the Chilean architect during his 22-year career (+ slideshow).
Alejandro Aravena completed a series of buildings for the Universidad Cato?lica de Chile, including the 2005 Siamese Towers ? a pair of conjoined classroom and office buildings. Photograph by Cristobal Palma
Alejandro Aravena, 48, founded his firm Alejandro Aravena Architects in 1994 after graduating from the Universidad Católica de Chile, for which he has since completed a series of major buildings.
The most recent, the UC Innovation Center ? Anacleto Angelini, is a monumental cube structure punctured by a small number of huge openings and featuring one cantilevered protrusion on the top level. Completed in 2014, it was named as the winner of the architecture category in the London Design Museum's 2015 Designs of the Year. Aravena's UC Innovation Center for the Universidad Católica de Chile is a monolithic concrete innovation centre with giant openings. Photograph by Cristobal Palma
"We proposed a rather opaque construction towards the outside, which is also efficient for the Santiago weather and then have a very permeable architecture inside," said Aravena.
"Having the structure and the shafts on the perimeter of the building reverts the typical curtain wall building layout and concentrates openings in a very specific points in the form of elevated squares.&q...