“It is a strange surprise and a great honor,” expressed Radić after hearing the news. He is the second architecture graduate from UC Chile to receive this prestigious award, after Alejandro Aravena in 2016. The jury highlighted his “radical originality” and his “intentionally intimate practice, in which architecture remains personal, attentive, and deeply felt.”
Source: UC Chile Architect Smiljan Radić Clarke Wins the 2026 Pritzker Prize, Considered the Nobel Prize of Architecture