(4 Mar 2025)
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Chengdu, China – 3 March 2025
1. Various of Liu Jiakun at an architectural exhibition
2. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liu Jiakun, Chinese Architect and Pritzker Architectural Prize Winner:
“Many architects use a strong personal style and form to gain a foothold in the world. No matter where it is, people can tell immediately that it is his/her work with a very strong symbolism. But I am not such kind of architect. I don’t want to have a very clear or obvious style that can be recognized as mine just at a glance.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chengdu, China – 3 March 2025
3. Various of aerials of Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum designed by Liu ++MUTE++
4. Wide exterior of the museum
5. Tilt down on the glass ceiling and wall inside the museum
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Chengdu, China – 2 March 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liu Jiakun, Chinese Architect and Pritzker Architectural Prize Winner:
“I can use my methodology and strategy to adapt to local conditions. I’d like to fully understand the place, and then look for resources, problems [to be solved], and the state that ought to be done from the local area, and then distill and refine [all these matters], and finally turn them into my work.”
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Chengdu, China – 3 March 2025
7. Various of parts of Luyeyuan compound
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Chengdu, China – 2 March 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liu Jiakun, Chinese Architect and Pritzker Architectural Prize Winner:
“I hope to deeply understand the thematic part of tradition that can survive, and then express it with contemporary technology and language, so that tradition can be used as a core to pave the way for your work, but the presentation of your work is contemporary.”
9. Various of exterior of the West Village, a commercial project designed by Liu
10. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liu Jiakun, Chinese Architect and Pritzker Architectural Prize Winner:
“The rapid development of cities nowadays is basically driven by capital. It is natural for capital to pursue profits, but sometimes when the measure is inappropriate, it will squeeze [the space for ordinary people]. For example, if all it does is tradable and with high-density, it actually squeezes the public space for people’s activities.”
11. Wide pan on the West Village
12. Various of sloping pathways around the compound with people running and walking on them
13. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liu Jiakun, Chinese Architect and Pritzker Architectural Prize Winner:
“You have to leave the public space they deserve for the public. Only in this way can the development of a city be positive and healthy, rather than being completely highly-dense, where people live in drawers and boxes in their lives, without even a place to go and no space for communication.”
14. Various of Liu working in his office
15. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Liu Jiakun, Chinese Architect and Pritzker Architectural Prize Winner:
“Excessive expectations may become a pressure. And will it make me too busy and prevent me from working more attentively? [There is also a possibility]. [From my perspective], I hope to keep the normality and the freedom as well as calmness.”
16. Various of people spending leisure time inside the West Village
STORYLINE:
The annual Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Liu Jiakun, who earned the field’s highest honor for “affirming architecture that celebrates the lives of ordinary citizens,” organizers announced on Tuesday.
In an interview on Sunday in his office in Chengdu, Liu said he was not one of those architects who likes to have a strongly recognizable visual style.
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