This year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, the Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, is known for his socially-minded design. Since establishing his Santiago firm ELEMENTAL in 2001, Aravena has designed some 2,500 units of housing. Yet, Aravena cautioned during a panel discussion at the United Nations last night, “It’s a mistake to think if a problem is big, the solution is big.”
In Aravena’s estimation, a small-scale solution can be squeezed into 17.1 Megabytes: At the panel, the architect proceeded to announce that the drawings for his social housing projects will be available for free download off of his firm’s website.
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