The Indicator: The Pritzker’s Better Half. There’s been a lot of buzz going around about the Pritzker jury dissing Denise Scott Brown, wife and co-partner to Robert Venturi.
Back in 1991 they awarded the prize to Mr. Venturi, singular…not plural to include his better half. Seems they, a different jury, also dissed Wang Shu’s wife and co-partner, Lu Wenyu way back in 2012 by granting the prestigious prize to Mr. Wang without acknowledging who holds up “the other half of the sky”, as they say in Mandarin. First, let’s look at who was on the committee back when Mr. and Mrs. Should we bother looking at the 2012 jury? Denise Scott Brown is not pounding her fists and demanding a separate prize, she just wants an inclusion ceremony…and I imagine that would include an open bar and dinner. According to a spokesperson for the Pritzker Architecture Prize, Mr.
In fact, Mr. Sorry, Lu Wenyu. If the Prize cannot deal with this debacle with speed and directness, then it stands to reason that its relevance has slipped. Photography: Wang Shu Projects, by Clement Guillaume. More photos of Wang Shu’s work by Iwan Baan. 2012 Pritzker Prize: Wang Shu. For nearly all of the next ten years, he worked with craftsmen to gain experience at actual building and have no responsibility for design.
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.” His interpretation of the word is relatively close to one of the unabridged dictionary’s definitions: “a person who engages in a study, sport or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons”.
Wang Shu from Amateur Studio - Pritzker Prize Ceremony. Wang Shu’s Work – 2012 Pritzker Prize. Today, Wang Shu from Amateur Architecture Studio has been announced as the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.
Here you will find a selection of his recent projects, such as the New Academy of Art in Hangzhou, the Ceramic House and the Ningbo History Museum. Xiangshan Campus, China Academy of Art, Phase I (2002-2004) Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum (2001-2005) Tiles Garden (2006) Five Scattered Houses (2003-2006) Ceramic House (2003-2006) Vertical Courtyard Apartments (2002-2007) Xiangshan Campus, China Academy of Art, Phase II (2004-2007) Ningbo History Museum (2003-2008) Ningbo Tengtou Pavilion (2010) Wang Shu by Alejandro Aravena. We had the exclusive opportunity to interview Pritzker Prize Jury Alejandro Aravena about Wang Shu’s work and the reasons of his selection as the 2012 Pritzker Prize laureate, where he cites extracts of conversations with the Chinese architect.
Wang Shu’s outstanding architecture may be the consequence of being able to combine talent and intelligence. This combination allows him to produce masterpieces when a monument is needed, but also very careful and contained architecture when a monument is not the case. The intensity of his work may be a consequence of his relative youth, but the precision and appropriateness of his operations talk of great maturity. Consider Ningbo Museum of History: it is so powerful, so overwhelming that it deserves to be called a masterpiece. You don’t visit the building; you are hit by the building. Then there is his distinctive use of discarded materials coming from other constructions.
Infographic: The history of the Pritzker Prize. Infographic: The History of the Pritzker Prize (1979-2013) 2011 Pritzker Prize Ceremony: Eduardo Souto de Moura, and Barack Obama. Last night we had the honor of attending the 2011 Pritzker Prize Ceremony in Washington D.C., where Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura received this important recognition.
This was the third time we attended the event (after 2009 in Buenos Aires and 2010 in New York) and it was a special evening, not only because of the renowned architects attending the event, but also for the presenting speech by President Barack Obama. Obama, a friend of the Pritzker family, delivered a short but interesting speech to Souto de Moura and the architects. Obama’s interest in architecture goes way back as we’ve heard him state that he thought he could be an architect, but as he said at the speech “I expected to be more creative than I turned out, so I had to go into politics instead”. 2011 Pritzker Prize: Eduardo Souto de Moura. Today, the Pritzker Prize laureate has been announced: Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.
The 58-year-old architect based in Porto worked on his earlier years at Alvaro Siza’s office, another Pritzker Laureate (1992), and opened his own practice in 1980. Since then he has completed over sixty buildings, most of them in Portugal, and also in Spain, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Along his works we find iconic projects such as the impressive Braga Stadium (2004) and the recent Casa das Histórias Paula Rego. “During the past three decades, Eduardo Souto de Moura has produced a body of work that is of our time but also carries echoes of architectural traditions. His buildings have a unique ability to convey seemingly conflicting characteristics — power and modesty, bravado and subtlety, bold public authority and a sense of intimacy —at the same time.”
2010 Pritzker Prize: SANAA. The Pritzker Architecture Prize. Peter Zumthor, Pritzker 2009 Laureate.