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Liu Jiakun
Public life and local realities as the starting point for architecture.
Background & practice
Liu founded Jiakun Architects in Chengdu in 1999. His work ranges from small memorials and museums to West Village, a large urban complex organised around shared activities. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2025.
How to read the work
Local materials, memory and appropriate construction methods address the tensions between density and generous public space. The result changes with its setting rather than repeating a signature form.
Professional recognition
2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.
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