Distraction in Architecture: In Conversation with 2026 Pritzker Laureate Smiljan Radić

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• – Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, the 55th laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, thanked architecture itself in his acceptance speech.
• – He spoke about what, within various encounters, provoked him and the marks they left on his architectural imagination.
• – Radić reflected on the role of distractions in shaping his practice.