Alejandro Aravena is the 2016 winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture. He established Alejandro Aravena Architects in 1994. His work include several buildings for Universidad Catolica: Mathematics School (1998), Medical School (2001), Architecture School (2004), Siamese Towers (2005) and more recently the Angelini Innovation Center (2014). and Chairless for Vitra in Germany (2008) and a building for Novartis in their new campus in China (2015). From 2000 until 2005 he was professor at Harvard University, where together with engineer Andres Iacobelli he found the social housing initiative ELEMENTAL, His work has been distinguished with several awards such as the Pritzker Architecture Prize (Madrid, 2016), the Design of the Year (London Design Museum, 2015), 1st Prize of Zumtobel Global Award (Austria, 2014), World Green Building Council Chairman's Award (USA, 2014),the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (France, 2007), and the Bicentennial Medal for his contribution to the country's development (Chile, 2004). His work has been featured in the São Paulo Biennale (2007), the Milano Triennale (2008), the Venice Architecture Biennale (2008 and 2012), the MoMA in New York (2010), the MA Gallery in Tokyo (2011) and is part of the collection of the Centre Pompidou
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