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

Experience Liu Jiakun's unique architectural philosophy that respects history and nature, fostering community through design ...

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 ...

Liu Jiakun has been named 2025 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize following a 40-year career and 30 projects ranging ...

Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile ...

Speaking to CNN ahead of Tuesday’s announcement, the founder of one of China’s first private architecture firms reflects on a ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It took Andy Hung, one of only 13 Lego Certified Professionals worldwide, three months to build the Forbidden City with Legos, and another two to make Studio City ...

Liu Jiakun, Chinese architect and founder of Jiakun Architects since 1999, is the 54th winner of the Pritzker Architecture ...

(AP video shot by Wayne Zhang) Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Chinese architect Liu Jiakun interacts with a scale model of the West Village project at his office in Chengdu in southwestern China’s ...

Liu, known for understated structures that respond to their surroundings, has been awarded the profession’s highest honor.