Smiljan Radic

I'm going to talk about Smiljan Radic, he is a chilean architect that was born on 1965 in Santiago, as the son of a marriage formed by Smiljan Radic Pirano and Cora María Clarke, he obtained the degree of architect by the School of Architecture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1989. 

In 2000 he won the contest for the civic district in Concepción, Chile, a project which won him the prize for the best Chilean architect under 35 years of the Chilean Architects Association in 2001.

He has given numerous lectures and his work has been exhibited in Mexico, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Norway and Austria.

He has built many constructions of different types, the most recurrent projects are characterized by making use of the small scale, houses, pavilions and facilities. In them construction details and material experimentation are reiterative themes, where rocks appear as heavy and massive elements as opposed to light transparencies.

This house is called house for the poem of the right angle, and it's used by him and his family  like a holiday house. The exterior resambles a cave, but inside we can realize the great permeability that exist. This house has only 3 doors, one in the entrance, another in the central yard and another in the bathroom, this is so that there is always a visual communication inside the house.

What I like the most about him is the sense of nature that his buildings inspired, and how the choice of material give character to his buildings.