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Wang Shu
Contemporary architecture grounded in craft and cultural memory.
Background & practice
Wang co-founded Amateur Architecture Studio with Lu Wenyu in Hangzhou in 1997. Time spent learning on building sites helped shape a practice that brings traditional skills into experimental contemporary construction.
How to read the work
Reuse, everyday building knowledge and close material research inform a critical response to rapid urban change. The work treats architectural continuity as an active design question.
Professional recognition
2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.
The 2012 Pritzker award names Wang individually; Amateur Architecture Studio is a partnership with Lu, not his sole practice.
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