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Wang Shu (China)
Architect and educator Wang Shu is the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate and a recent inductee to the French Academy of Architecture (2023). Since 2018, he has served as a Pritzker Architecture Prize juror.
Wang has been a visiting professor at MIT, University College London, the University of Hong Kong, and Tongji University and was the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor at Harvard University in 2011.
Among Wang’s numerous honors are gold medals from the French Academy of Architecture (2011) and Tau Sigma Delta (2019), honorary doctoral degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an international fellowship from RIBA, and an honorary professorship from Southeast University. In 2013, he was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine.
Lu Wenyu (China)
Architect and educator Lu Wenyu is a 2023 inductee of the French Academy of Architecture. Director of the Experimental Centre for Sustainable Building at the China Academy of Art, Lu has also been a visiting professor at Harvard University and MIT. She chaired the 2024 RIBA International Prize jury and was a juror for the 2020–2023 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation.
Lu has received numerous awards and honors, including the Schelling Architecture Prize in Germany, an honorary award from the Venice Biennale (2010), an international fellowship from RIBA (2015), and a Tau Sigma Delta gold medal (2019).
Together, Lu Wenyu and Wang Shu cofounded Amateur Architecture Studio (1997). In 2003, Wang and Lu also founded the architecture department at the China Academy of Art. When the academy’s School of Architecture was established in 2007, Wang served as the school’s first dean. Wang and Lu focused on reestablishing a contemporary language for Chinese architecture, an effort reflected in their built works such as the Ningbo Historic Museum, Xiangshan Central Campus of China Academy of Art, Tiles Hill in Hang Zhou, renovation of Wencun village, the Fuyang Cultural Complex, the National Archives of Publications and Culture in Hangzhou, preservation and renovation of Southern Song Imperial Street in Hangzhou, and the Lin’an History Museum.
Their Xiangshan Central Campus of China Academy of Art was one of “The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture,” as selected by the New York Times in 2021.