2012 Pritzker Prize Winner: Wang Shu

by Esfand Khoram

Chinese architect Wang Shu, has won the Pritzker Prize (architecture’s most prestigious award). Wang is based in Hangzho ,west of Shanghai, and runs his firm “Amateur Architecture Studio” with his wife. He is known for incorporating salvaged materials into bold, contemporary buildings. Wang’s projects include the Ningbo History Museum constructed from more than one million pieces of salvaged stone, brick, and tile. The jury chose Wang due to his thoughtful alternatives to sleek, generic towers that typify the rapidly modernizing skyline of China.

Read more about it in this article by The Los Angeles Times and watch a slideshow of his structures by Artinfo.

Ceramic House, designed by Wang Shu in Jinhua, China / Associated Press