Great Architects - Wang Shu - 2012 Pritzker Prize Laureate

Wang Shu a Chinese architect based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the dean of the School of Architecture of the China Academy of Art. In 1997, Wang Shu and his wife Lu Wenyu, also an architect, founded the firm Amateur Architecture Studio. They chose the name as a rebuke of the “professional, soulless architecture“ practiced in China, which they believe has contributed to the large-scale demolition of many old urban neighborhoods. In 2012, Wang became the first Chinese to win the Pritzker Prize, arch