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"Building a House" Author: Wang Shu Publisher: Pu Rui Culture/Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House
"Building a House" Author: Wang Shu Publisher: Pu Rui Culture/Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This book is a collection of essays on architectural culture by Wang Shu, the winner of the Pritzker Prize, the highest award in the world for architecture and a famous architect. This book starts from architecture, but it is more than architecture. It is also a book that explores the contemporaneity of Chinese traditional culture. The contemporaneity of traditional culture has been an important topic that has been repeatedly pondered and discussed by the academic community in recent years. Wang Shu, with his academic accomplishments and construction experience, has constructed a unique aesthetic system of oriental aesthetics and also provided a path for traditional culture to enter the contemporary era. This has very important academic reference value for the present.
10 essays on architectural culture - from the artistic conception of Song Dynasty landscape paintings to the aesthetic taste of Ming and Qing Dynasty gardens, the author deeply analyzes Chinese traditional culture and art, and explores the aesthetic value of traditional culture and Eastern philosophy from the perspective of architecture.
4 articles on the history of architectural works - Wang Shu's famous architectural works include the Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Art and the Ningbo Art Museum. In this book, the author uses simple language to restore the birth process of these works from the beginning of design, the construction process, to the aftermath of completion. From this, we can see the author's in-depth thinking on "good architecture" and "how to create contemporary architecture that returns to tradition."
6 prose essays + 1 conversation - the author talks about personal experience, society and life, and also touches on topics such as living space that people are concerned about today. The master's growth process and humanistic feelings are clearly visible.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Wang Shu is a professor at the China Academy of Art, a part-time professor at Southeast University and Tongji University, a Kenzo Tange Professor at Harvard Graduate School, and a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1997, he and his wife Lu Wenyu founded the Amateur Architecture Studio, dedicated to the research and work of reconstructing contemporary Chinese architecture, which is reflected in his works such as Ningbo Museum, Ningbo Art Museum, Xiangshan Campus of China Academy of Art (located in Zhuantang, Hangzhou), Ningbo Tengtou Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo, Vertical Courtyard House (Qianjiang Era, Hangzhou), and Comprehensive Protection and Reconstruction of Hangzhou Southern Song Imperial Street. In 2010, he and Lu Wenyu won the German Schelling Architecture Practice Award and the Special Honor Award of the Venice Biennale. In 2011, he won the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture. In 2012, he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In 2012, he won the "Global Innovation Award" selected by the Wall Street Journal. In 2013, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
