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Although Wang lived in Ürümqi and Beijing in his early life, after college he moved to Hangzhou for the city's natural landscapes and ancient tradition of art. He worked for the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art) and in 1990 completed his first architectural project, a youth centre in the city of Haining near Hangzhou. [ 1]
Jan 13, 2016 · In 2012 Wang Shu became the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The 48-year-old's practice is based in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province
Nov 4, 2017 · Wang Shu (born November 4, 1963) is a Hangzhou-based architect and dean at the China Academy of Art, known for his thoughtful resistance to what he considers “ professionalized, soulless...
Born in 1963 in the semiautonomous northwestern region of Xinjiang to a musician and amateur carpenter father and a librarian mother, Wang arrived in Nanjing at the beginning of a sea change in Chinese architecture.
- Cole Roskam
Wang Shu (born November 4, 1963, Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China) is a Chinese architect whose reuse of materials salvaged from demolition sites and thoughtful approach to setting and Chinese tradition revealed his opposition to modern China’s relentless urbanization.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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...
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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 announced today by Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation which sponsors the prize.
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