* Architecture: Wang Shu, 2012 Pritzker Prize Winner – An Architect’s Vision: Bare Elegance in China
Posted by the editors on Sunday, 12 August 2012
Architecture: Wang Shu, 2012 Pritzker Prize Winner – An Architect’s Vision: Bare Elegance in China: “..His bold yet refined buildings that often recall nature fuse old-world Chinese and modern idioms, using inexpensive materials, like recycled bricks and tiles, as building material..In awarding this year’s Pritzker Prize to Mr. Wang, 48, in February, the jury catapulted to center stage an architect who profoundly disagrees with China’s rush to urbanization and has found a way to criticize it through his own style of work..”
10-image slideshow accompanying the article, here.
See our posts on other work by Wang Shu:
- Architecture: Wang Shu Projects, Photographs by Clement Guillaume
- Design: alessi and wang shu: the pritzker prize winner designs clouds root
- Architecture: 2012 Pritzker Prize: More photos of Wang Shu’s work by Iwan Baan
- Architecture: Pritzker Prize Winner Wang Shu: The Work of Amateur Architecture Studio
- Architecture: Wang Shu – 2012 Pritzker Prize Winner – For First Time, Architect in China Wins Top Prize
- Architecture: Chinese Architect Wang Shu Wins the 2012 Pritzker Prize
image: Lv Hengzhong, Courtesy of Amateur Architecture Studio, The New York Times; article: Jane Perlez, The New York Times
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