{"id":20701,"date":"2016-01-13T09:29:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=20701"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:03:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:03:42","slug":"architectures-biggest-prize-was-just-awarded-to-someone-youve-probably-never-heard-of-by-paul-goldberger-vanity-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/architectures-biggest-prize-was-just-awarded-to-someone-youve-probably-never-heard-of-by-paul-goldberger-vanity-fair","title":{"rendered":"Architecture\u2019s Biggest Prize Was Just Awarded to Someone You\u2019ve Probably Never Heard Of \u2014 By Paul Goldberger | Vanity Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/pritzker-prize-alejandro-aravena-01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Aravena, who is from Chile, is relatively unknown in the United States (although he taught for five years at Harvard and served for a period on the Pritzker jury), for at least the last decade he has been establishing himself on the international architecture scene as a serious and unusual practitioner who straddles, subtly but brilliantly, the worlds of formal high design and social responsibility. He has plenty of credibility as a serious designer\u2014he was recently named curator of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale\u2014but his own mode of architectural practice is what sets him apart. Aravena runs Elemental, which bills itself as a \u201cdo tank\u201d\u2014not a think tank\u2014and which creates \u201cprojects of public interest and social impact, including housing, public space, infrastructure and transportation.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2016\/01\/pritzker-prize-2016-alejandro-aravena\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile Aravena, who is from Chile, is relatively unknown in the United States (although he taught for five years at Harvard and served for a period on the Pritzker jury), for at least the last decade he has been establishing himself on the international architecture scene as a serious and unusual practitioner who straddles, subtly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1636,37,1491],"tags":[2038],"class_list":["post-20701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-human-trajectories","category-transportation","tag-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44573,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20701\/revisions\/44573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}