Alejandro Aravena is the Executive Director of ELEMENTAL, a socially motivated architectural practice based in Santiago, Chile. His lecture «The Power of Synthesis» will inaugurate the NSL lecture series as an annual presentation of exceptional work under a rotating theme determined by the inviting professor. To begin, Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil from the Institute for Urban Design has organized Mr. Aravena’s lecture to relate back to «De-Localize», the Urban Mutations on the Edge semester topic.