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A Chilean Master of Modest Design Wins Architecture’s Top Prize

The naming of Smiljan Radic as the next Pritzker laureate was delayed by the disclosure of Jeffrey Epstein’s friendship with Tom Pritzker, who has now distanced himself from the prize.

These are some of the essential elements that infuse the work of Smiljan Radic of Santiago, Chile, the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor.

Not imposing or commanding, his projects are instead understated and quiet, content to serve their purpose — be it a bus stop, winery or sculptor’s studio.

While he gained some international attention with his 2014 Serpentine Pavilion — the prestigious annual commission for a structure on the gallery’s front lawn in London — Radic, 60, has otherwise been mostly working under the radar on modest projects in Chile.

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Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, whose often-experimental designs include a doughnut-shaped pavilion in London and a restaurant held up by boulders in Santiago, was named the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize — an award often dubbed the field’s equivalent to a Nobel Prize — on Thursday.

While the 60-year-old’s designs may, at first glance, appear precariously engineered or even unfinished, the award’s jury said they uplifted those who enter, calling his work “optimistic and quietly joyful.”

Radić becomes the fifth Latin American architect to win the prestigious prize in its 47-year history. First presented to modernist pioneer Philip Johnson in 1979, the annual award has since honored many of the profession’s most influential figures, including the late Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster and Rem Koolhaas. But recent years have seen juries acknowledge lesser-known architects and figures committed to smaller-scale, or socially-minded, designs.

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