Architect:
Alejandro Aravena www.elementalchile.org

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Location:
Santiago, Chile

Founded:
1994

Design staff:
None. Hires people on a project-by-project basis. Currently has 10 people working in office.

Principal:
Collaborates with other architects on a project-by-project basis: Fernando Perez (Medical School); Luis Lucero (Medical, Mathematics, and Architecture schools); Lorena Andrade (Architecture School); Claudio Blanco (Montessori School); Jorge Christie and Victor Oddó (Pirehueico House); Charles Murray, Ricardo Torrejón, Alfonso Montero (Siamese Towers and Elemental); Andres Iacobelli (Elemental)

Education:
Universidad Católica de Chile, B.Arch., 1992

Work history:
Academic—Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1999– present; Universidad Católica de Chile, 1994–present

Key completed projects:
Medical School, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 2004; Montessori School, Santiago, 2001; Mathematics School, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 1999; Sculptor’s House, Santiago, 1998

Key current projects:
Architecture School, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 2004; Elemental Quinta Monroy, Iquique, Chile, 2004; Pirehueico House, Pirehueico Lake, Chile, 2004; Siamese Towers, Universidad Católica, Santiago, 2005

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