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Summary
Third interview with Chinese architect and academic Wang Shu, winner of the 2012 Pritzker Prize and member of Amateur Architecture Studio. In this record, Wang explains how his work is unalterable to the success it has achieved in the recent years, emphasizing that he is interested in keepin the pace and character of his office, despite many offers to develop a more international profile.
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Amateur Architecture Studio is a Chinese office, founded by the architect Wang Shu and his wife Lu Wen Yu in Hangzhou Province in 1998. Internationally recognized as one of the Chinese office with largest scope, Amateur Architecture Studio combines traditional building knowledge with experimental construction techniques in Chinese urban context. In 2006, they have represented China in 11th Venice Architecture Biennial with an installation entitled ‘Tiles Garden’: a surface made of 66.000 Chinese tiles from demolition, crossed by a bamboo footbridge. They also have been invited to 12th Venice Architecture Biennial by the curator Kazuyo Sejima in 2010. The same year, the have won the Erich Schelling Medal. Wang Shu has received the Pritzker Prize in 2012.
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