The Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena just won this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent to the Nobel Prize.
Aravena focuses on designing architecture with a social conscience. He has spent his career building social housing and rebuilding cities after earthquakes.
Take a look at some of the designs from his 22-year career.
Aravena is the first Pritzker winner from Chile and the fourth from South America. Aravena's work is fueled by impact on the community, rather than pure aesthetics.
It's more important to create buildings that improve the lives on its residents, he has said. This social housing project in Monterrey, Mexico was financed by public funds.
His work gives "economic opportunity to the less privileged, mitigates the effects of natural disasters, reduces energy consumption, and provides welcoming public space," said Tom Pritzker, the prize's sponsor, in a statement.
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