I grew up with what Peter Smithson described as a whiff of the powder of Modernism, and with a passion for its architecture – plus a presumption that architecture was women’s work,” Denise Scott Brown said in a recent interview with architecture curator Clare Farrow, recalling her Norman Hanson-designed childhood Johannesburg home and how it helped steer her towards her venerated career.
To mark the occasion of Chilean architect Smiljan Radić being named 2026 Pritzker Prize laureate, we revisit his 2014 interview with RECORD editor in chief Josephine Minutillo discussing the design for that year’s Serpentine Pavilion in London.