The Pritzker jury praised Liu for using "Chinese tradition without nostalgia, but as a springboard for innovation." ...

From that lofty vantage point, he said, he could peer over neighborhoods still filled with traditional wooden Chinese homes. After Liu graduated from college in 1982, he worked for a state-owned ...

Through his architecture, respite and openness find ... about the collective sense of belonging to a place. He revisits the Chinese tradition as a springboard for innovation devoid of nostalgia ...

He is only the second Chinese citizen to receive the prize, following Wang Shu in 2012, a remarkable achievement considering private architectural practice was banned in China until the 1990s. Liu, ...