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Alejandro Aravena Riconosciuto come uno degli architetti contemporanei più influenti al mondo, nel 2016 ha ricevuto il Pritzker Prize, ...
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Riconosciuto come uno degli architetti contemporanei più influenti al mondo, nel 2016 ha ricevuto il Pritzker Prize, il più importante premio globale di architettura, nello stesso anno in cui il <anchor>New York Times</anchor> lo ha scelto tra i 28 geni creativi che hanno definito la cultura, accanto a personaggi come Michelle Obama e Donatella Versace. Nel 2008 ha ricevuto il Leone d'argento alla Biennale di Architettura di Venezia.
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Entertainment|28 Creative Geniuses Who Defined Culture in 2016

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# 28 Creative Geniuses Who Defined Culture in 2016

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By T Magazine

- Dec. 28, 2016

From their studios, ateliers, film sets and kitchens — and even the White House — these are the people whose inventive spirits shaped the conversation this year.

## Michelle Obama

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One of T’s biggest stories this year was our Greats issue cover on Michelle Obama, in which four admirers — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gloria Steinem, Jon Meacham and Rashida Jones — wrote thank-you notes to the first lady, who has spent the past eight years quietly and confidently changing the course of American history. Here’s a bit of Adichie’s powerful paean: “It was the 2016 Democratic Convention. Michelle Obama was speaking. She said ‘black boy’ and ‘slaves,’ words she would not have said eight years ago because eight years ago any concrete gesturing to blackness would have had real consequences. She was relaxed, emotional, sentimental. Her uncertainties laid to rest. Her rhythm was subtler, because she no longer needed it as her armor, because she had conquered.”

## Alejandro Aravena

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Good-looking, charming and a celebrity in his native Chile, the architect Alejandro Aravena — the surprise winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize — cares more about solving social problems than exercising his artistic chops. “The more monotonous, dry, tough, the better,” as he put it in a story this spring by Michael Kimmelman. “Given that people will construct homes for themselves anyhow, this architecture gives order to their interventions.”

## Donatella Versace

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