Smiljan Radić Clarke – ENG

Smiljan Radić Clarke was born in 1965 in Santiago, Chile. He graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1989 and subsequently studied history at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia. In 2001, he was named the best Chilean architect under the age of 35 by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Chile. He has given numerous lectures and presented his work in Mexico, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Norway and Austria. In 2007, he was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2008 at Harvard University, together with his long-term collaborator, sculptor Marcela Correa. He is the recipient of the 2026 Pritzker Prize. He is an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects and an Honorary Fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, since 2009 and 2020, respectively.