The Most Famous

ARCHITECTS from Chile

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This page contains a list of the greatest Chilean Architects. The pantheon dataset contains 518 Architects, 2 of which were born in Chile. This makes Chile the birth place of the 34th most number of Architects behind Romania, and Malta.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chilean Architects of all time. This list of famous Chilean Architects is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Sophia Hayden (1868 - 1953)

With an HPI of 47.22, Sophia Hayden is the most famous Chilean Architect.  Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Sophia Hayden (October 17, 1868 – February 3, 1953) was an American architect and first female graduate of the four-year program in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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2. Alejandro Aravena (b. 1967)

With an HPI of 46.58, Alejandro Aravena is the 2nd most famous Chilean Architect.  His biography has been translated into 24 different languages.

Alejandro Gastón Aravena Mori (born 22 June 1967) is a Chilean architect and executive director of the firm Elemental S.A. He won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2016, and was the director and curator of the Architecture Section of the 2016 Venice Biennale.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Chilean architects born between 1868 and 1967. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Chilean architects include Alejandro Aravena. The most famous deceased Chilean architects include Sophia Hayden.

Living Chilean Architects

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Deceased Chilean Architects

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