Who Is Smiljan Radić Clarke? 10 Things to Know About the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Laureate

Guatero, Pavilion of the Architecture Biennale 2023, Santiago, Chile. Image © Smiljan Radić, courtesy of The Pritzker Architecture Prize

Smiljan Radić Clarke, the 2026 Pritzker Prize winner, is a contemporary Chilean architect known for his experimental approach to design, with a practice that balances the elemental with the intimate, the monumental with the fragile. Over the course of more than three decades, Radić has developed an architecture that resists repetition and conventional stylistic categorization...