Smiljan Radic. 2G n.44

Alberto Sato, Patricio Mardones

Along with Mathias Klotz, Alejandro Aravena, Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Sebastián Irarrázabal and Cecilia Puga, Smiljan Radic (Santiago de Chile, 1965) is worth mentioning. Although his work evolves in a country that is seemingly remote from the world, he confronts the same contemporary issues as other architects from the First World: the use of new techniques and new materials, the relationship to place, and a preoccupation with the ordinary by introducing local values that produce new, unusual, sentient qualities in his buildings. The delicacy of his small buildings, in which he works at the scale of the detail as well as with more general themes, means that his oeuvre occupies a particular and highly personal place in current Chilean architecture.