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Vincitore del premio dell'Accademia delle Arti e delle Lettere degli Stati Uniti 2018 per il suo contributo all'architettura come arte, già nel 2014 il <anchor>New York Times</anchor> lo aveva definito "una rockstar tra gli architetti".
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# Smiljan Radic: A Rock Star Among Architects

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The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic, left, inside the pavilion he designed in Kensington Gardens in London for the Serpentine Galleries.Credit...David Azia for The New York Times

By Jane Margolies

- July 9, 2014

Two weeks ago, a translucent pod of glass-reinforced plastic, poised atop enormous sandstone boulders, appeared on a curve of lawn in Kensington Gardens in London. The folly, which one reviewer called “a collision between an extraterrestrial egg and a Neolithic burial site,” is by the Chilean architect Smiljan Radic, whom the nearby Serpentine Galleries chose to create a temporary structure in its front yard. It is the 14th year that the museum has commissioned a Serpentine Pavilion, always turning to an architect who has not previously built in Britain, and the unveiling of the park installation has become a closely watched summer ritual.

Although the project has thrust him onto the international stage, Mr. Radic, 49, has spent most of his career in his native land, quietly building a diverse body of intriguing work reflecting his interest in form, material and meaning. His House for the Poem of the Right Angle, evoking Le Corbusier’s writings, has truncated cones poking from the roof framing views of the treetops. Another residence is clad in copper panels. For the Mestizo restaurant in Santiago, he used granite boulders as columns to support a flat, black concrete roof.

The largest building he is working on right now, the VIK winery, will open later this month. Developed by the owners of the Vik Retreats hotels, it is set on an 11,000-acre estate in the Millahue Valley, south of Santiago. The winery’s front courtyard is a sloping pool of rippling water crisscrossed with poured-cement pathways that look like airport runways gone amok; large stones are strewn about as if some giant were playing marbles. Behind the courtyard, a white fabric roof curves over the winery, most of which hunkers underground. Mr. Radic provided details of the design by phone and email. (This interview has been edited and condensed.)

Q. The project seems as much about landscaping as architecture.

A. The landscape in Chile is really beautiful, so the challenge is always to do less to it. We put the building underground to save energy and keep the temperature stable for the wine. But it was also to preserve the landscape. You can see through the building to the mountains with snow.

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The largest building he is working on now, the VIK winery in Chile, uses rocks in the exterior design, instilling a sense of the primitive in the new.Credit...Cristobal Palma

Tell me about the courtyard pool.

It has walls on either side so it is like you are in an interior space, but you are actually in an exterior space. The water helps keep the barrel room underneath it cool. As the water moves, the waves make sounds, like a waterfall. It’s a calming atmosphere.

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