"A collage of memories and impressions that, together, shaped the architect he became."
Smiljan Radić opened his Pritzker Architecture Prize acceptance speech by thanking architecture itself. He described “distractions” as meaningful encounters gathered throughout life and practice, spanning art, cities, materials, structures, compositions, landscapes, poetry, nature, forms, stories, and memories. He reflected on what within these experiences provoked him and what marks they left on his architectural imagination. His examples ranged from distinctive light and interiors to stone heaps, fallen columns, abandoned shires, and architectural exhibitions. He also referenced a traveling Chilean circus and the silence of water in cisterns at Hagia Sophia, presenting a collage of moments that together shaped the architect he became.
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