Wang Shu

Architect

Wang Shu won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2012. He believes very strongly in sustainable architecture and building in a way that is suited to less privileged communities – one of his latest projects involves persuading a Communist Party secretary in a village near Hangzhou not to tear down the dwellings but to renovate using the original tiles and bricks. He and his wife, Lu Wenyu, founded the Amateur Architecture Studio in 1997 in Hangzhou, China. The office name references the approach an amateur builder takes – one based on spontaneity, craft skills and cultural traditions. Wang Shu is Professor and Head of the Architecture School at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. In 2011, he became the first Chinese Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the same year he received the Gold Medal of Architecture (grande médaille d’or) from the Académie d’Architecture of France.

He has exhibited individually and participated in several major international exhibitions including: the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale, the 2009 Architecture as a Resistance solo exhibition at the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels and the 2007 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture.

Consumption Jury

The jury for the Prix Pictet are a group of leading experts in the visual arts from around the world including directors of major museums and galleries as well as journalists and critics. They lead the global search for images of high artistic qcuality and narrative power and fit the theme of a particular cycle.

  • Professor Sir David King (Chairman)

    UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for ClimateChange (SRCC)

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  • Peter Aspden

    Arts Writer, Financial Times

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  • Luc Delahaye

    Laureate, Prix Pictet Power

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  • Fumio Nanjo

    Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

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  • Loa Haagen Pictet

    Curator, Pictet Collection

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  • Martin Roth

    Director, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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  • Wang Shu

    Architect

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  • Elisabeth Sussman

    Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography Whitney Museumof American Art, New York

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