For Wang Shu, Hangzhou will always be the one in his heart, and "half lake-hill scenery, half city" remains the most beautiful model for the ideal city he envisions from his heart. As summer arrives, AD China went to Hangzhou to visit Wang Shu, co-founder and principal architect of Amateur Architecture Studio, and the first Chinese to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. From Ningbo Museum to Xiangshan campus of China Academy of Art to the National Archives of Publications and Culture (Hangzhou branch), Wang Shu has worked like a historian using materials such as porcelain, brick and cement as a type of “text” to record what happened and what is happening.
Our series "Architecture on the Move" is about the gaze into architecture, city and architects. Traveling with architects to different cities and destinations around the world, and from the perspective of architects and their works, AD China seeks to observe and record each city and one of its built traces, captured by mediums of video, text, photography and in-depth dialogue.