"We return to the countryside, to open a kind of architecture experiment which moves beyond the conflict of urban and the countryside."
Wang Shu 王澍
Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect
Mr. Wang Shu is head of the architecture department of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou and founder of Amateur Architecture Studio which he runs with his wife, Lu Wenyu. Wang won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2012 and became the first Chinese citizen to win this prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.
In 2010, Wang and Lu Wenyu won the German Schelling Architecture Prize together, and in2011 he received the gold medal from the French Academy of Architecture. His architecture has been described as “opening new horizons while at the same time resonating with place and memory” by the Pritzker Prize jury.
Wang Shu’s signature work includes the Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum and the Ningbo History Museum. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University), a Master’s degree in Architecture from Southeast University, and a PHD in Architecture from Tong ji University.
TEDxShanghai May 2016
theme : Balance