Awards can be a controversial topic within China’s architecture community. When Wang Shu became the first Chinese architect ...

Works by Chinese architect Liu Jiakun, this year's winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, have been described ...

Liu, based in China's southwestern Sichuan region, has said that the purpose of his architecture “is to create a beautiful, just and dignified living environment,” and that he tries to balance ...

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Liu Jiakun's works reflect his view of the importance of community, people and heritage. His ...

CHENGDU, March 24 (Xinhua) -- When asked about his favorite architectural form, Liu Jiakun, the newly crowned Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, did not mention soaring skyscrapers or grand ...

considered akin to a Nobel in the field of architecture. In an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Chengdu in China’s southwestern Sichuan region, the architect said he had a ...

The prize, established in 1979, is commonly referred to as "the Nobel Prize of architecture." Liu is from Chengdu, in the Sichuan province of China. He was born there in 1956. His childhood was spent ...

Sichuan Opera and traditional Sichuan architecture." He added that the movie also draws inspiration from over 20 historical Chinese artifacts, such as birds and swords. "Success of the film also ...

Liu, based in Chengdu in China’s southwestern Sichuan region, has said that the purpose of his architecture “is to create a beautiful, just and dignified living environment,” and that he ...

Image “Memorial to Hu Huishan,” a tribute to a teenager who died in the Sichuan earthquake in 2008.Credit...Jiakun Architects via The Pritzker Architecture Prize His so-called rebirth brick ...