Smiljan Radić (born 1965) is a Chilean architect based in Santiago who received the Pritzker Prize in 2026. Born in Santiago, he studied architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, graduating in 1989, and then history at the architecture university in Venice. He founded his practice in Santiago in 1995. He often works with his wife, the sculptor Marcela Correa, as on Casa Chica (1997), a tiny house in the Andes. In 2017 he set up the Fundación de Arquitectura Frágil to promote experimental architecture, and in 2026 he shared Chile's National Architecture Award with Alejandro Aravena.
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His early work was mostly houses in Chile. The Mestizo Restaurant in Santiago (2007) belongs to the same years, and at Viña Vik Winery in the Millahue valley (2014), designed with Loreto Lyon, he built a winery set into the vineyards. That year he made one of seven bus shelters for the Austrian village project BUS:STOP Krumbach (2014) and the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, a translucent fibreglass shell resting on large quarry stones. The Teatro Regional del Biobío in Concepción (2018) is his largest public building.
