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 ...

Large-scale urbanization has led to the disappearance of traditional villages, environmental degradation, and the homogenization of architecture and lifestyles in many Chinese cities. It is within ...

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, ...

is modeled after a traditional Chinese garden.Credit...Bi Kejian via The Pritzker Architecture Prize “In a world that tends to create endless dull peripheries, he has found a way to build places ...

Built in 2014, it summons ancient Chinese architectural motifs in its use of dramatic tiered balconies. Another, the Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum in Chengdu, from 2002, evokes a traditional ...

The jury cited Liu's "reverence for culture, history and nature, chronicling time and comforting users with familiarity through modern... Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins the 2025 Pritzker Prize ...