Smiljan Radić wins 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Smiljan Radić Clarke, the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient, defies ‘archistardom’ to embrace vulnerability.

Smiljan Radić Clarke, the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient, defies ‘archistardom’ to embrace vulnerability.

From cliffside homes to inflatable pavilions, Chilean architect Smiljan Radić defies easy definition — site-specific, quietly radical, and impossible to reduce to a single signature.

Instead building futuristic skyscrapers in fancy architectural hot-spots, seven international studios designed archi-bus-stops plunging into the alpine culture of a picturesque village in Austria.