The Chilean Architect was named this year’s recipient of architecture’s most prestigious award, joining the ranks of Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi or Zaha Hadid.
The descendant of Croatian immigrants to Chile, Radić has built a portfolio of work primarily in South America, including private residences, cultural institutions, and commercial buildings.
His practice resists stylistic categorization, utilizing materials with heft like stone, wood, and metals set against transparent glass, fabric, fiberglass and more.
Assembled in structures that read like an energy-rich Kandinsky painting or a Zen-like Torkwase Dyson sculpture, his work appears contradictory, both anchored to the earth while it stands on its tiptoes.
Mr Radić first opened his practice in 1995 and quickly distinguished himself through an imaginative use of materials in stunning landscapes:
With 1995’s Casa Chica, he created a 300-square-foot home using only wood, upcycled doors, and plate glass that sit on granite slabs in a wooded area; later, his 2004 Copper House clad a family home in weighty, weathered copper tiles that seem to pull the sloped roof downward, while opposing floor-to-ceiling glass windows provide contrast, lightening the load on the surrounding undulated plain.
He progressed to larger commercial work, including the Mestizo restaurant in Santiago where, like Casa Chica, stone—large, sculptural boulders—became part of the building’s structural engineering. Collaborating with his wife, the sculptor Marcela Correa, these monumental stones support a steel trellis roof draped in a fabric canopy.
In 2024, Radić launched the 'Fundation de Arquitectura Fragil' (Foundation for Fragile Architecture), which acts as a home for his practice as well as an extensive archive of his collected books and ephemera from 20th-century radical architecture movements.
Online, his buildings are scattered across interviews and articles, photo galleries; he speaks frequently of poetry, philosophy, and fine arts, framing his architectural thinking as a sort of interdisciplinary intellectual endeavor.
Casa para el Poema del Ángulo Recto, Vilches, Chile, 2010-2012,
Inspired by Le Corbusier’s poetic text Poème de l’Angle Droit, this house stands in a forested landscape near the Andes. The design combines cylindrical and angular volumes, creating an expressive form embedded into the hillside. The building moves visitors from dark entry spaces to light-filled interiors, using geometry and light as key spatial elements.
Hello I mcyt fandom-ified la Team du Lundi members and wrote a shit ton of text about it
After exhausting myself on trying to catch up on the current QSMP lore I got a sudden craving for a more familiar and fast paced kind of minecraft content and ended up rewatching all the Team du Lundi's SMP best of's I could find
And while doing so with my brain still hazed in fandom brainrot, I started picking up on minor details or info the players casually dropped, and drew parallels to the French speakers' QSMP counterparts
This is going to be a long wordy post I don't even know what I am rambling about and for. Three things you need to be aware of about la Team du Lundi before reading :
Baghera, Antoine and Etoiles are the only QSMP players that are part of la Team du Lundi
As far as I remember the only two elements that suggest that la Team du Lundi's SMP could be canon to QSMP are Antoine being pressured into building another Tower of Shit, and Baghera's infamous fountain being mentioned when she was asked if her character remembers anything from her past before the island
La Team du Lundi's SMP was NOT a roleplaying server, it was just a private survival server for a small circle of friends casually playing together. So whenever I quote someone in this specific post, it is the streamer : there is no character other than the persona the streamer is usually showing on stream, but I just thought it would be fun to interpret certain situations while keeping in mind the QSMP lore. And here goes :
Baghera claims that when she was a kid she strongly believed that she could breathe underwater. The others joke about her having fins
Antoine jokingly tells Baghera he doesn’t need oxygen at all
Antoine claims he will still be alive thousands of years forwards
Antoine’s voice shifts when he wants to appear creepy
Baghera built an aquarium at her place, then helped Antoine build one at his tower, then built a giant swimming pool, then a fountain, then a waterslide- do you see a theme ?
Baghera knows that her skin is actually that of a chick and not a duckling, and calls it so here
Chat said that Baghera has a middle child syndrome, justifying that she bullies Angle Droit because Etoiles bullies her in the first place (Etoiles has also called her « little sister » in a derogatory way)
Etoiles has repeatedly asked people to play Valorant with him at least once
Here's a clip of Etoiles getting languaged in french and owing "a gifted sub in the swear jar"
Unrelated random clip of Etoiles because it creates happy hormones in me brain
Etoiles is regularly refered to as "the warrior"
Etoiles guided the whole group during an expedition to the End and he was literally glowing doing so (enchanted arrows effect)
Everyone called him "the guide"
Baghera was the one who gave the final blow to the Enderdragon (and died from magic right after)
Etoiles spent most of his time adventuring in order to bring stuff and gear back to everyone for their builds
Etoiles asked Aypierre for help in order to design a redstone door for his cave which could only open upon solving a puzzle (which was egg & arrow related) (Aypierre was not a member of the server)
Etoiles built a nightclub with the walls and ceiling covered in wardenblocks making it look like a starry sky. He also rehomed Allays holding golden apples inside claiming them to be the souls working for him and that they lived there peacefuly
Etoiles jokingly talks about Antoine acting jealous and violent towards him because Etoiles told him he wanted to go and visit Kameto (who also was not a member of the server)
Baghera (along with Horty) had a rivalry with Joueur du Grenier (host of the server with admin powers) after he decided to build a massive parking lot right next to their house. They countered by covering the whole thing with dirt, followed by JDG building a factory and the two parties went back and forth. Baghera argued that it was stupid because they didnt even have cars to begin with (which is a sentence she reused when talking about Forever's roads) Also she tells JDG that he could've built a seaport instead, which makes JDG contemplate the thought of building an airport (and though he ended up never building it, I am side eyeing the French's plane crash)
At some point JDG wonders about what a roleplaying minecraft server would look like (RPZ 2), to which Baghera replies that she has a hard time picturing the thing "We'd all just build things you see ? I don't think we'd create stories, we would all just be like "I'm a builder, ah you too ? Well awesome, builders, cool"" and I find this to be hilariously ironic (fun fact : Baghera had no idea that QSMP was a roleplaying server when she first joined and often claims she would've taken a different approach with her character had she known right off the gate)
As I was finishing to write this down, these fuckers (/lh) decided to host a closure night for the server as they've never really officially did it, everyone just sort of deserted the server after a while. Baghera, Etoiles and Antoine kept referring to QSMP throughout the night, mostly talking about how weird it felt without mods. Among other meta commentary things
They mentionned Cellbit and Bad multiple times as the group was trying to solve enigmas. Antoine talked about "the cultural sharing" between communities as he taught insults to each others with Mike, Roier and Maximus in their respective languages
Multiple more players were namedropped (including eggs) while Antoine was talking about how the server functions
Yes, Baghera and Etoiles kept their QSMP skins. Etoiles with his code corrupted purgatory one, and Baghera with her fading pink disheveled hair (with the addition of her cubito wearing Horty's merch)
Baghera admits that going back to this small familiar vanilla server feels like coming back home to your family during the holidays
Team du Lundi's cameos in QSMP :
Though Pomme has never canonically met JDG (even though most of her parents have talked about him to her at least once), she occasionaly breaks the 4th wall to refer to him. She once compared one of BBH's "vacation" flower shirts with his, and when Foolish and Bad asked her to elaborate (obviously not getting the reference) she proceeded to play JDG's music theme with the flute instead (Also I really feel the need to once more point out how mindblowing it is for your average french speaking viewer to have JDG's intro theme being added to the mod they use in the QSMP because of how anchored it is within french internet pop culture. Like this shit has been existing for 14 fucking years, it's part of the childhood of a lot of us, so to find a clip of British hardcore player Philza peacefuly listening to Mexican egg admin Tallulah play this theme on her flute feels like a multiverse fever dream)
Horty has been on Quesadilla Island through cc!Baghera's account, but neither of them really wanted to justify it RP wise. Baghera just wanted to give her best friend a tour of the island. Horty only got to meet Richarlyson who gave her a tour of Cellbit's castle and made her pick a room (she chose Chaos). She also chatted with Etoiles who tagged along for a bit and (this is obviously justified by it being a one-shot out of roleplay filler episode kind of night) they both already knew each other and were on friendly enough terms to bicker with one another
Also she was part of the French speakers Quackity reached out to to invite on the server, but she had to decline because she was very busy at that time (and also not interested)
Also also she was Baghera's teammate for that Formula 4 event, and Baghera has discussed it and showed pictures to a couple of islanders, including Richas who was very hyped about it
Another player the viewers were hoping to see on Quackity's server is Mynthos. He exists within the server with the picture of him that hangs in Pomme's art gallery, the cursed animation video that used to play in La France, as well as with Aypierre's health potion factory that bears his name
Angle Droit and Zerator are sometimes namedropped when the French speakers talk with their chat. Angle Droit frequently raids Baghera's and Antoine's streams, and though it has never been confirmed, a lot of viewers theorized that she was the +1 player Baghera and Etoiles wanted to invite on the server had they won the elections.
As for Zera, Etoiles went AFK on QSMP a couple of times in order to test some of Zerator's TrackMania maps (which he later discussed with Pac). I also remember a very trivial conversation Etoiles had with Mouse and Aypierre where he laughed about hurting his back very badly after carrying a fellow streamer during a caritative event, said event was hosted by Zerator (he's also the one judging them with concern from his desk)
I'm done.
Bonus alternative design for Angle Droit because at first I thought she was a fox then it turned out she was a corgi but then she changed it again to a fox and woop
it seems I am not the only one insane about the idea of Pomme meeting the greater french family so here's some more headcanons in no particular order that expand on the previous post
(For background I'm mostly setting this like Pomme gets transported to the TDL server)
I think Mynthos would probably be the one she clings to the hardest at first. He's loving, speaks kindly to her, and would definitively be impressed with her builds. I can imagine her telling him all about the things Chayanne used to cook for her and her siblings and they would try to make it together based on her memory. It doesn't taste quite like what Chayanne made, it's different, but different is safe now.
Pomme would be so inspired by Angle Droits treehouse build, I imagine her immediately growing another tree next to her house to make another room for Pomme. Pomme would build another underground bunker for her own anxiety, but it would go largely unused. There's no longer anyone chasing her, no codes, no shadow government, no el quackity. She would probably have a different room in everyones house that she mostly goes back and forth between depending on the day.
Zera would do everything in his power to make her a menace like he is. Eventually in an attempt to impress him Pomme shows him the mines that Aypierre used a lot in qsmp. (Which worldbuilding wise would be uncraftable in the TDLsmp through natural means, but since Pomme had them in her inventory when she joined, were basically smuggled in.) While this would be fun and bonding at first I can absolutely see this going extremely wrong and trigger Pommes fear of explosions, typical hurt/comfort ensues along with Zera very suddenly realizing "Oh shit that's my niece protect her at all costs"
This incident is probably what leads to JDG putting her in the creative mode the first time, even as the server owner there's some things he can't quite change yet and isn't really willing to risk Pomme being stuck with two lives. So why not keep her from dying in the first place? Worldbuilding thing again, since you can't die in creative mod I imagine you can't feel anything either, which freaks Pomme out to no end as it reminds her of the way she felt when the code killed her by popping every single one of her totems in one hit and demands he change her back immediately. Which he does if a bit begrudgingly. He passes it off as just "Well its the easiest way to protect the kid and I don't wanna have to do more than I need" but deep down he is extremely concerned, both for her safety and her fearful reaction to creative mode.
It is still still a quick fix to protect her though... If he's awake at the time.
