The Chilean architect has been awarded the highest honour in the field of architecture. Here is a selection of his most important designs.
The 2026 Pritzker Prize has been awarded to a Chilean architect whose work is far removed from spectacle and the logic of starchitects. Their creations, suspended between landscape, matter and fragility, bring a radical approach to building back to the fore.
The Forestone Cabin, designed by students from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), is a compact 20-square-meter dwelling created to help address wildfire risks in the forested areas of the Pyrenees.
Located beneath a 1970s residential building, the extension to Casa Conte blends into the landscape, almost disappearing from view. On the outside, it reveals itself with a sinuous and dynamic façade that winds its way through the vineyards.
Near Milan, the studio revisits the construction techniques of traditional Lombard farmhouses in the renovation of a 20th-century courtyard house, where even the home’s everyday functioning — from heating to maintenance — becomes a shared project.
QB Atelier has designed a home in Veneto that occupies the spaces of a 20th-century factory and opens onto a secret garden.
In Nakano, one of Tokyo's 23 special wards, an elevated walkway introduces the house-studio designed by Hiroyuki Oinuma of HOAA Studio. The path continues inside the building.
The regeneration of this twentieth-century distillery on the Ionian Sea continues: already operating as a hotel since 2019, the property has just expanded its footprint.
With Casa dos Muros, SET Arq has transformed limitations into opportunities. The project is set between two existing stone walls and around a tree, creating a play of solids, voids, and transparencies.
The name itself denounces the concept of the house: introverted and almost completely closed to the outside world. In reality, there is much more to this ethereal space sculpted by white masonry.
On the Portuguese coast, Extrastudio carries out a process of hybridization between the non-native typology of the brick terraced house and the local architecture made of essential geometries and white color palettes.
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
In Barcelona, the Ca na Baldu i en Diego (Catalan for "house of Baldu and Diego") is the result of a careful stitching process that transforms existing heterogeneous volumes into a new unified and coherent organism.
The demolition of Y Block, the rescue of Picasso's mosaics, Hoyblokka and the new buildings: this is where the long regeneration of Oslo's government district by Nordic Office of Architecture begins. Domus visited the site and spoke with the architects who have been working on the project for over ten years.
