Today (5 April), 2016 Pritzker Prize Laureate Alejandro Aravena will join several other past winners of the award to discuss the challenges facing architecture and the built environment.
The Chilean architect collected his prize – widely regarded as architecture's highest accolade – yesterday after being celebrated by the Pritzker panel for a body of work that has made
"consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment.”The event, called
Pritzker Laureates' Conversation: Challenges Ahead for the Built Environment will take place at 6.30pm ET (11.30pm GMT) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Aravena will be joined by Richard Meier, Glenn Murcutt, Jean Nouvel, Renzo Piano, Christian de Portzamparc, Richard Rogers and Wang Shu. The event will be opened by Paloma Durán, the director of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund.
The conference will will be webcast live, and can be viewed on
CLAD below:
At 1pm ET (6pm GMT), Aravena will take part in a press conference at the UN headquarters in New York to discuss his award, his work and the challenges facing architecture. You can follow the event online, where
CLAD will be
live tweeting from the event. The video is screened courtesy of The Hyatt Foundation/The Pritzker Architecture Prize.
