Full Coverage: Alejandro Aravena wins Pritzker Prize

Alejandro Aravena on Wednesday won the 2016 Pritzker Prize.

Alejandro Aravena, a 48-year-old architect based in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday was named the winner of the Pritzker Prize, the top honor in the field.

When Alejandro Aravena began studying architecture at Santiago’s prestigious Catholic University in the 1980s, the strongman Augusto Pinochet was still clinging to power.