The War on Cliche
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On this episode, we\'re joined by Chilean architect\\u200b\\u200b\\xa0Alejandro Aravena\\u200b\\u200b. A long-familiar name to most of our listeners, Aravena\\u2019s work gained significant media attention upon\\xa0winning the Pritzker Prize in 2016\\u200b, elevating his reputation for working to address some of today\\u2019s most difficult issues through participatory design, engaging users, groups, experts, and the public-at-large. His most notable projects are his \\u201cincremental housing\\u201d developments, a partially subsidized low-income solution for displaced families providing half-built homes for families to complete on their own, within their own budgets and tastes. Elemental has since released the plans for these projects for free, via\\xa0download from their website\\u200b.
This week Aravena was awarded another significant prize, the\\xa0ULI J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development\\u200b. The award recognizes visionaries that are making significant contributions to international community building, with an emphasis on land use and development bettering society. Our conversation starts with him describing how this ULI prize is so important to him...
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