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Despite his growing popularity and fame as an architect, Wang Shu, who practiced calligraphy, considered himself a scholar, a craftsman, and an architect, in that order. He saw the abilities to adapt and to improvise as critical characteristics of the craftsman.
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Wang Shu sees himself first as a scholar, then a craftsman, and, lastly, as an architect. It's surprising, then, that at the young age of 48 Wang Shu was chosen as the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate.
Feb 10, 2016 · Wang used his reclusive decade to reinvent himself as ‘a scholar, a craftsman, and an architect, in that order’. He emerged as a self-professed member of the literati: Chinese intellectuals who used painting and poetry to display their erudition and superior cultivated status.
Nov 16, 2015 · Wang used his reclusive decade to reinvent himself as ‘a scholar, a craftsman, and an architect, in that order’. He emerged as a self-professed member of the literati: Chinese intellectuals who used painting and poetry to display their erudition and superior cultivated status.
Jan 22, 2024 · Wang Shu, a winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, revisits Chinese architecture by combining recycled materials with traditional craftmanship. As the founder of Amateur Architecture Studio he strives to design projects that integrate harmoniously with their environment.
Feb 27, 2012 · Wang Shu, a 48 year old architect whose architectural practice is based in Hangzhou, The People’s Republic of China, will be the recipient of the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was...
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In 1997, Wang Shu and his wife, Lu Wenyu, founded their professional practice in Hangzhou, naming it “Amateur Architecture Studio.” He explains the name, “For myself, being an artisan or a craftsman, is an amateur or almost the same thing.”
