Wang Shu is drafting a new architectural blueprint for his country. His vision is deceptively simple—China's new buildings should look uniquely Chinese. Skip to Main Content.

This year's Pritzker Prize--architecture's greatest honor--goes to Wang Shu. His victory is also one for contemporary Chinese design, as it signifies China's growing global creative influence.

For Wang Shu, an architect needs not only to explore the possibility of new buildings, but also to aim to reconstruct a world full of nature and mountain-river poetic life.

Chinese architect Wang Shu, whose buildings have been praised for their commanding presence and careful attention to the environment, has won the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury ...

Yet Wang Shu’s work seems to be intrinsically linked to Lu Wenyu. In 1997, the couple co-founded the firm Amateur Architecture Studio. Together, Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu went on to construct the 13 ...

The day after Chinese architect Wang Shu was awarded the $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field’s equivalent of a Nobel, in May 2012, he returned to the old Beijing neighborhood where ...

PHOTOS: Pritzker Prize goes to Wang Shu. Like several recent Pritzker laureates, including Portugal’s Eduardo Souto de Moura, who won last year, he combines a spare, muscular formal language ...