(CHILE/USA)	Alejandro Aravena graduated from the Catholic University in Santiago in 1992. He attended courses in theory and history at the University Institute of Architecture in Vienna, and then courses in engraving at the Academy of Literature. He has been teaching the history and theory of architecture at the Catholic University since 1992, and was appointed Director of the Department in 1998. He was appointed Associate Professor in London, and then at Harvard in 2000 and 2001. As an acclaimed prize-winner for several of his projects, among others at the Venice Biennale in 1991, and then at the Santiago Biennale in 2000, he has also written many articles and books on architecture. His teaching courses at Harvard are aimed at reducing the arbitrary factor in the production of form, and perceiving the project in terms of living relations. He bases his line of thought on emergency housing and its side effects: the "instant city". In his book, emergency architecture provides the essential elementary and universal rules, without which it is impossible to work. The exercise he proposes is not designed to help fuel thinking about future architecture, but rather about what it has always been: "The role of architecture and art is to always do the same thing and never in the same way". This is what the examples that will be presented on the theme of "Otherwise-ness" are intended to express.
Alejandro Aravena Aravena (Alejandro) (1967)
• Otherwise-ness (Atelier, Harvard University) 2000