Alejandro Aravena Wins 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize

摘要

When Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena speaks about building, he invokes the language of governments and institutes: "investing in brains over bricks"; turning "forces into forms." But unlike the abstract ideas that may emerge from a policy institute, Aravena, with his Santiago-based firm ELEMENTAL, is keen on designing solutions that not only aid but also empower society's neediest. For this visionary approach, Aravena has been named the winner of the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the profession's most prestigious honor. "Few have risen to the demands of practicing architecture as an artful endeavor, as well as meeting today's social and economic challenges," the prize's nine-member jury-which included Pritzker laureates Glenn Murcutt and Richard Rogers and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer-wrote in its citation. "[Aravena] has achieved both."