ELEMENTAL. Incremental Housing and Participatory Design Handbook

What began as an academic initiative to improve the quality of life of the poor strata of the population has become a professional service that offers services that cover the entire spectrum of urban development. Celebrated Chilean architect, 2016 Pritzker Prize winner and Director of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Alejandro Aravena (born 1967) founded Elemental in 2001 in his hometown with the aim of alleviating social deprivation directly rather than expecting a balance in las relationship