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

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 architectSmiljan Radic, whom the nearby Serpentine Gallerieschose 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.)...Continue Reading

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