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Pritzker Prize 2026: Chile’s Smiljan Radić Wins ‘Nobel’ of Architecture
Smiljan Radić Clarke, the second Chilean winner, receives $100,000 and a bronze medallion for innovative buildings inspired by science and chemistry, jury said.
- On Thursday, the Pritzker Prize announced Smiljan Radić, Chilean architect, as this year’s winner, an award often called the Nobel of architecture.
- Radić’s career trajectory shows how he rose to prominence after designing the Serpentine Pavilion and completing dozens of projects that built his formidable reputation.
- The Pritzker jury praised his work for uplifting visitors and described the pavilion as 'seeming to belong at once to a world of science fiction and to a primordial past,' wrote Ellis Woodman in The Telegraph.
- He will receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion at a ceremony later this year; Radić defended the prize’s integrity, saying architecture remains a positive act despite current challenges.
- Radić’s victory marks a milestone for Latin American architecture, following scrutiny over Tom Pritzker’s Epstein ties, with the Hyatt Foundation protecting the prize, and he is the fifth Latin American laureate.
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This year's prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize was awarded to architect Smiljan Radić Clarke, a master of working with various materials. The chairman of this year's jury was architect Alejandro Aravena, who won the prize in 2016. He, like this year's laureate, is from Chile.
Chilean architect Smiljan Radic (61) has been selected as this year's winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, known as the "Nobel Prize of architecture." The Pritzker Prize is the world's most prestigious architecture award, established in 1979 by the Hyatt Foundation in the United States. The winner is awarded a prize of $100,000 and a medal. This year, the announcement, originally scheduled for the 2nd, was delayed as Tom Pritzker, who lead…
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke is the recipient of this year's Pritzker Prize, which is considered the Nobel Prize for architecture, the award's organizers announced today.
This year, the jury of the Pritzker Architecture Award honors Smiljan Radić Clarke as a representative of experimental architecture. Chilene develops every project from place, history and atmosphere.
This year, the Pritzker Architecture Award goes to Chilean architect Smiljan Radic Clarke.
With buildings that are " temporarily or deliberately incomplete", the 60-year-old architect is distinguished from the "Nobel" of the architecture. Júri highlights three decades of unique work.
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