Alejandro Aravena Interview: Advice to the Young

Be as nerdy and as unrestricted as possible, says Chilean Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena - of the visionary architecture studio Elemental - in this short video. Watch him offer his advice to young architects, who should always be open-minded and willing to take risks.
Listen without prejudice and swallow all the information you get from others, Aravena advises, and when you “spit out” this information in a project proposal, avoid clichés and dare to be rebellious - be an author rather than a consultant. In this way, he continues, “some good may be put out in the world in the form of the built environment.”
Alejandro Aravena (b. 1967) is a Chilean architect. In 2001 he founded the socially conscious architectural office Elemental, which focuses on projects of public interest such as housing, public space, infrastructure and transportation, and they first gained recognition for their work with social housing projects in Chile. Elemental also design other kinds of buildings from museums through universities to office buildings, not only in Chile but also in the U.S., Mexico, China and Switzerland. Exhibitions of their work have been included at e.g. the Sao Paulo Biennale 2007 and MoMA in New York City (2010). Aravena is the recipient of prestigious awards including the Silver Lion (2008), the Erich Schelling Architecture Medal (2006), a Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (2008) and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016. From 2009 to 2015 he was a member of the Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury, and in 2016, he was the director and curator of the Architecture Section of the Venice Biennale.
Alejandro Aravena was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark in October 2018.
Camera: Klaus Elmer
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2019
Supported by Dreyers Fond
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[@클라이머원]

Alejandro inspire me a lot in the part of the architect's participation in society.
In the hope that many architectural students like me in Korea can easily access this video, I worked and submitted subtitles.
Thank for made good interview videos and good advice.

[@axelestepa2245]

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[@noradiaz7550]

Cómo haceuna estrella de disfraces

[@caelcovi6411]

Nice to read some actually Is interested in transplante that. Greetings from Santiago de Chile Mate !

[@arsene_dahyoung]

고맙습니다

[@javierpacheco8234]

One of my favorite architects. Amazing advice.

[@galas062]

Freedom: unless you are women in our architecture industry...there needs of a massive change towards women in the architectural communities....

[@GB-ty2uc]

Your reverence for freedom and use of the mind is admirable, in this culture of tribalism and unreason. Your putting it in words out there is brave and like a beacon of light for our young architects. Thank you.

[@aleksandrazabudowska2030]

Advice from the Young to Alejandro Aravena - start paying and respecting your young workers.

[@tranzco1173]

Free nerds work for free, that's how free they are.

[@eden8576]

True that 👏🏾

[@spacekidfamily]

Does he not pay his interns?

[@janpapalka]

​I heard u need to pay. Absurd
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[@mushfequssaleheen6498]

I’m grateful to you