Santiago-based Radić joins Alejandro Aravena as the second Chilean—and second RECORD Design Vanguard recipient—to win architecture's most prestigious prize.
‘Architectural awards have a magical healing effect on architects, and buildings should have the same effect on their users,’ said the 54th Pritzker laureate in his acceptance speech.
The Japanese architect speaks to RECORD about the importance of community as a social construct and as the driving force of his architectural design over five decades of practice.
The jury praised the Yokohama-based architect for “reminding us that in architecture, as in democracy, spaces must be created by the resolve of the people.”