Architect/Professor Wang Shu lives in Hangzhou, where he established the Amateur
Architecture Studio with his wife Lu WenYu together in 1997. He’s been working
and doing research on re-establishment of contemporary Chinese architecture,
which reflects in his projects as the Ceramic Houses, Vertical Courtyard
Apartment, the Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum,
Five scattered Houses, New Campus of China Academy of Art in HangZhou,
Ningbo Historic
Museum, Tengtou Pavilion for Shanghai expo, etc. The
application of vernacular, traditional, recycled construction materials with
modern technology is an important and unique feature of their designs. Such efforts emphasize their concerns with
sustainable development of architecture. Their projects have been published in
numerous books and magazines around the world. And also their works have been
shown in museums, art and architecture centers, and educational institutes
throughout the world. He serves as the head of School
of Architecture in China Academy of
Art, one of the best art schools in China. He’s been invited by
universities, colleges and other institutes around the world to participate
academic conferences, give lectures and make speeches.
Wang
Shu has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2012. He and Lu Wenyu are
the winners of the Schelling Architecture Prize in 2010 and he also received
the Gold Prize of Architecture from France
Architecture Academy
in 2011.Wang Shu is the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at the Harvard Design
School for the Fall semester
2011.
