Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process

Does he really pose a new and “radical” solution, though? It only promotes the commodification of housing and brings the ever present sense of capitalism closer to home, literally. I have yet to see a sustainable idea that genuinely benefits the people it’s meant to serve. He just seems like another “starchitect”.

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Great Works!

The summary of this talk: Think out the box.

-His wig is crooked and nobody told him.

国内曾经也有很多这样的棚户区，但是选择的方式是全部推倒重来，这固然能统一标准，甚至创造更多的利润，但却似乎没有完美的解决人生存的渴望和对自由的延展。难题总是需要更完美的方案来解决，尽管过程更加艰难。

Beautiful

This simplification is called the feyman technique, but Jesus used it almost 2000 years ago.

What if the community is filled with racists who want to exclude everyone but the white/wealthy/republican?

«What that form is modelling and shaping is not cement, bricks or wood. It is life itself. Design’s power of synthesis it’s just an attempt to put at the inner most core of architecture the force of life»

that's inspiring

Stop the intentional income inequality. Nobody is better off inside a city than in the country.

re crack el tipo , alto capo de la arquitectura

What we manage the problems? Building forests! Give the Oscar to this guy!

Please translate it into korean ..

It's amazing people like him that can say they've completely changed people's lives.

Türkçe çevirisi bazı kısımlarda baya kötü çevrilmiş

I'm watching loads of architectural talks, so far this one's the best.

ااا معمار ١٧ المستقبل 🥱🌚💔

This is what a genius looks like, no?

I really like his thinking process and he speaks beautifully

Thanks for good lecture 👏

Genius!

Brillante

Soy mèdico, estudiante de neurologia y gente como èste señor es lo que me mantiene inspirado. El concepto de sentido comùn mas que las doctrinas frente a los problemas y los proyectos sociales entendidos como inversiòn mas que un gasto son ideas revolucionarias profundamente. Bravo.

Great discussion. This is not about romanticizing poverty. It is about initiating and creating more solutions that embodies with "common sense". Planning and designing is not all about forming a childish and romantic dream, it is all about facing the problems and situations that is more highly concerned about like illegal settlers and natural disasters especially in third-world countries. This is what architecture could provide all about analyzing and creating more solutions that the world needs the most today.

👍👍👍

His hair is amazing.

Shout out to all the students taking reading buildings

Then stop getting pregnant and yeah just don't bring any more humans to suffer to this world. The system is corrupted so, let's just not.

This guy is wise

other than being a very beautiful man, he is also very inspiring!!!

Dropped out of arch school with hopes to try again. Now I’m working on a masters in economics. This guy is literally thinking on both fields and more. It is genius. I am highly interested in this niche and I think it is essential to explore it some more.

U need 3 more s things,.... Sharing sustainability and of course stubbornness,......

Real Rock Star saves the world. Bravo Alejandro!

This man is not an architect but a visionary. The answer is inclusion of the right and force of the community, nature and of a visionary creative technical, social and moral leader.

Force of community

That block of concret may save energy but not nature and men resources to built it like precious sand, water, etc

bravo good job !

Any thoughts about bringing the community into the process of Architectural design regarding private residences? Does the process still applicable on a smaller scale?

david lynch of architecture

Fantastic

Ohh wow..... I want to become an architect and guess what when he told the case of tsunami..... After listening to him couple of minutes.... I made my own idea of add forest in between.... But there was only one change between our ideas... And that was..... I thought of adding forest btw with some depth.... In that area..... Think so my idea was better.... And also i an become an architect now............ Btw i am just 16 years old and in 11th grade....... From India....... Cause its Indian mind..... Proud of my self....

couldn't agree more! aravena is amazing!

nice speech.

I realised that to appreciate a product of architecture, we need to know the (right) problem that the form of architecture try to solve. To be honest, not all of his building is extremely beautiful, but when we learn what are those buildings try to solve, we find out how brilliant his ideas are. Bravo!