ELEMENTAL strikes a balance between luxury and altruism

2019-05-01T19:54:00-04:00

There is only a small handful of architects practicing today whose work can at once be described as lavish and another as altruistic - Michael Maltzan, Shigeru Ban and Kengo Kuma are a few of the names that come to mind.

Vacation Home, by ELEMENTAL. Image via Chile Sotheby’s International Realty

But perhaps it is the name of Alejandro Aravena, the Pritzker-prize winning architect behind the Chilean firm ELEMENTAL, that should come before others. The firm's work is always photogenic (the vacation home featured above being among their most exemplary), but one gets the strong sense that this isn't the main priority each time they take on a new project. Rather, as Aravena said in an interview, the firm's goal is to contribute to "a fair built environment where the common good can be guaranteed and balanced with individual gains."

ELEMENTAL, Alejandro Aravena. Published by Lars Müller.

ELEMENTAL, the monograph recently published by Lars Müller, highlights the delicate balance between lux...

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ELEMENTAL strikes a balance between luxury and altruism