Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Pritzker prize winner challenges the direction of contemporary architecture in China


Faced with the groundswell of huge new building projects in China, this year's Pritzker Prize winner Wang Shu has proposed an alternative view saying they are not the only architectural products his country has to offer. The practice he runs with his wife Lu Wenyu, is concerned with such things as memory, location, craft and identity, for "real feeling between people and construction" and the ways in which they can be recognised in the extraordinary time through which China is now passing. Read more...
Image: Ningbo History Museum designed by Weng Shu