Smiljan Radić: "The political responsibility of an architect is to build a good building"

Winning the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel of architects, can be overwhelming. "It was a nice surprise, and it has meant a lot of work, but not architectural work, but rather doing interviews and giving talks," he tells ARA. this year's winner, the Chilean Smiljan Radić (Santiago, Chile, 1965). "It has also brought me a lot of negative things, in the sense that I have had to say no to many things, because I don't have time, and because I don't want to lose certain practices that are important, like designing or sitting in front of a computer to work. Then a kind of mediation, or a game, appears between what reality offers me and what I can really accept".