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Chilean Architect Smiljan Radic Claims Pritzker Prize
12 Mar
Summary
- Smiljan Radic, known for unfinished-looking designs, wins Pritzker.
- His work includes London's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion and Vik Millahue Winery.
- The jury cited his creation of surprising yet natural spatial experiences.
Chilean architect Smiljan Radic Clarke is the recipient of this year's Pritzker Prize, widely recognized as architecture's highest honor. The 60-year-old native of Santiago is celebrated for his unique approach, which often features buildings that seem "deliberately unfinished" yet provide "optimistic and quietly joyful" shelter.
Radic's celebrated projects include the distinctive donut-shaped fiberglass Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, which rested on locally sourced rocks, and the Vik Millahue Winery nestled among the vineyards of Chile's Andes mountains. Another notable structure is the Teatro Regional del Biobio in Concepcion, Chile, which resembles a paper lantern.
The Pritzker jury highlighted Radic's ability to craft "spatial experiences that feel at once surprising and entirely natural," emphasizing his artful reminder that architecture is fundamentally an art form. His work, spanning across Europe and Chile, embraces vulnerability as a core element of lived experience.
