Large-scale urbanization has led to the disappearance of traditional villages, environmental degradation, and the homogenization of architecture and lifestyles in many Chinese cities. It is within ...
The Pritzker jury praised Liu for using "Chinese tradition without nostalgia, but as a springboard for innovation." ...
Awards can be a controversial topic within China’s architecture community. When Wang Shu became the first Chinese architect ...
Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile ...
From that lofty vantage point, he said, he could peer over neighborhoods still filled with traditional wooden Chinese homes. After Liu graduated from college in 1982, he worked for a state-owned ...
The exterior design of the China Pavilion at Osaka Expo Photo: Courtesy of China Architecture Design and Research Group .
An curved arrow pointing right. It took Andy Hung, one of only 13 Lego Certified Professionals worldwide, three months to build the Forbidden City with Legos, and another two to make Studio City ...
Almost a quarter of a century after Li Xinggang came to prominence as Herzog & de Meuron’s collaborator on the National ...
He accepted a place at Chongqing’s Institute of Architecture and Engineering in 1978, two years after the former Chinese Communist Party leader’s death, and graduated amid the reform-era polic ...
Liu Jiakun. Image © Tom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation:The Pritzker Architecture Prize In an interview with ArchDaily, they summarise their design practice as 'the ...
using architecture to forge community, inspire compassion and elevate the human spirit,” Pritzker organisers said in a statement. He is only the second Chinese citizen to receive the prize, following ...