* Architecture: Wang Shu, 2012 Pritzker Prize Winner – An Architect’s Vision: Bare Elegance in China

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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* Design: alessi and wang shu: the pritzker prize winner designs clouds root

Design: alessi and wang shu: the pritzker prize winner designs clouds root: “..pritzker prize winner wang shu of amateur architecture studio designed a tray set for italian manufacturer alessi‘s (UN)forbidden city collection. one is big and the other small; one male and the other female. they meet by chance in one point, leaving space between them. the material is mirror polished steel, to virtually represent the relationship between illusion and reality. the irregular shape is visually balanced by the straight edges and the use of solid steel, with a firm, rigid border profile..”  Clouds’ illusions, I recall..

image + article: Designboom

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* Architecture: 2012 Pritzker Prize: More photos of Wang Shu’s work by Iwan Baan

Architecture: 2012 Pritzker Prize: More photos of Wang Shu’s work by Iwan Baan: “..From Iwan Baan‘s website we are bringing you two more projects by 2012 Pritzker laureate,Wang Shu: The Ceramic House (Coffee House) in the Jinhua Architecture Park, where Ai Wei Wei, working as the curator, brought together 16 architects from around the world to create a pavilion-city along the banks of the river Yiwu; and the Zhongshan Road renovation in Hangzhou..”  More images of the outstanding and innovative work of Wang Shu and Amateur Architecture Studio, photographed by the excellent photographer Iwan Baan..

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image: Iwan Baan; article: Saieh , Nico . “More photos of Wang Shu’s work by Iwan Baan” 28 Feb 2012. ArchDaily. <http://www.archdaily.com/212042&gt;

* Architecture: Wang Shu – 2012 Pritzker Prize Winner – For First Time, Architect in China Wins Top Prize

Architecture: Wang Shu – 2012 Pritzker Prize Winner – For First Time, Architect in China Wins Top Prize: The architecture and design critic Robin Pogrebin writes in The New York Times, “The Chinese architect Wang Shu, whose buildings in a rapidly developing China honor the past with salvaged materials even as they experiment with modern forms, has been awarded the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize…”  Excellent article on the 2012 Pritzker Prize winner..

image: Lv Hengzhong, The New York Times; article: Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times

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