Wang Shu
Wang Shu
Wang Shu, male, Han nationality, was born in Urumqi, Xinjiang on November 4, 1963. He is a famous architect and architect, a representative scholar of contemporary new humanistic architecture, and a leading figure with the most international academic influence in China's new architecture movement. Southeast University (former Nanjing Institute of Technology) Department of architecture bachelor, master, Tongji University Architecture doctor. At present, he is the dean of the school of architectural art, China Academy of fine arts, a second level Professor, a doctoral supervisor, a discipline leader of architecture, and a young and middle-aged discipline leader of universities in Zhejiang Province.
On February 27, 2012, he won Pritzker Architecture Prize, becoming the first Chinese to win the prize.
On December 14, 2019, he was named "influential person of the year" and "cultural person of the year".
Character experience
Early experience
Wang Shu was born on November 4, 1963 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. His ancestral home is yejiapo village, Jiaokou County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province. He grew up in Xinjiang, Beijing and Xi'an. Primary school and junior high school graduated from Xi'an children's School of China Railway First Bureau.
He graduated from Xi'an middle school of China Railway First Bureau in 1981. After 1981, he studied in Jiangnan.
In 1981, he was admitted to the Department of architecture of Southeast University (formerly Nanjing Institute of Technology).
He graduated from the Department of architecture of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) with a bachelor's degree in 1985.
Career
In 1988, he received a master's degree in architecture from the Institute of architecture, Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) (Tutor: academician Qi Kang). After his master's degree, he came to Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Fine Arts) to study the relationship between environment and architecture. He worked in Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Fine Arts) from 1988 to 1995.
The Haining youth palace built in 1990 is Wang Shu's first work.
In 1997, Wang Shu and his wife Lu Wenyu set up "amateur architecture studio". In an article called "amateur architecture", Wang Shu explained "amateur": "emphasizing that an architectural concept is amateur is actually emphasizing that freedom has higher value than norms, and is happy to see a little confusion caused by questioning the authority of discredited credit."
There are only six people in the amateur Studio: Mr. and Mrs. Wang Shu and his four disciples. They usually have to cooperate with some large design institutes to complete all the construction drawings.
The rule in the industry is that the studio does a good job in the design scheme, and the design institute provides a set of construction drawings, and then the ground starts. Lu Wenyu was not at ease, and reached a "new rule" with the Design Institute: the first construction drawings should be taken back to the studio to supplement and improve, and then the design institute should correct them again, and then they should be returned to the studio for final inspection and finalization. Others only do one process, and "amateur studio" has to do four.
In 2000, he graduated from the school of architecture and urban planning of Tongji University with a doctor's degree (Tutor: Lu Jiwei), majoring in urban design of architectural design and theory. After obtaining the doctor's degree, he began to serve as the dean of the school of architecture and art of China Academy of fine arts.
In 2002, he published his monograph the beginning of design.
In 2011, Wang Shu became the first Chinese architect to serve as the "third visiting professor of Dan Xiajian" in the Graduate School of Harvard University.
At the end of 2011, Wang Shu was employed by Dan Xiajian, the third Honorary Professor of Harvard graduate school, to give a speech entitled "narrative and geometry of natural form".
In 2012, he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the "Nobel Prize in architecture".
In 2013, on April 18, 2013 local time in the United States, Time magazine published the list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2013, and Wang Shu, Dean of the school of architecture and art of China Academy of fine arts, was selected. Xiangshan Campus of China Academy of fine arts, Ningbo Museum, Southern Song Yu Street in Hangzhou, Tengtou Pavilion of Shanghai World Expo, Wenzheng College Library of Suzhou University, wusanfang, Lin'an Museum in Hangzhou are all his architectural works.
The "tile wall" used by Wang Shu in architecture is made of recycled old bricks and tiles. He frequently uses recycled materials in his works and has been protesting against the waste of building materials. Time magazine specially mentioned the work "tile garden" created by Wang Shu seven years ago with 66000 pieces of green tiles from the demolition of old houses. At that time, it once attracted the attention of the architectural circles to the current urban problems in China, and set off a Chinese upsurge on the international architectural stage. It was also mentioned that at the 12th Venice Biennale of architecture, Wang Shu won a special honor award for "decaying dome", becoming the first Chinese architect to stand on the podium of the world's largest architecture exhibition in his own name. (Time magazine's annual list of the world's 100 most influential people is selected once a year, covering influential people from all walks of life, from political, business, sports and cultural circles. By the end of 2013, Time magazine has selected the 100 most influential people in the world for 10 consecutive years. In 2013, the 100 people were divided into five groups: giant group, leader group, artist group, pioneer group and idol group. Wang Shu belongs to the artist group.)
Interesting life
Wang Shu began to study on his own since he was a sophomore in University. When he was a doctor, he took cold baths all year round and played several games a week. When the graduation thesis was handed over to the Tutor Lu Jiwei, Professor Lu praised the thesis as a good one but could not understand it, and asked his colleagues for help.
Wang Shu's doctoral thesis was entitled "fictional city" until he won the prize in 2012. His elder brothers and teachers in Tongji began to vaguely recall the handwritten doctoral thesis. Some people treasure it up to now, but still say they can't understand it.
Wang Shu's master's degree thesis "notes of the dead house" criticized the whole Chinese architectural circles at that time. He pasted his thesis all over the walls of the defense classroom during his defense, and claimed that "there is only one and a half architects in China, Yang Tingbao is one, and teacher Qi is half.". Although the thesis passed by a unanimous vote, the academic degree committee thought it was too arrogant to grant him a degree. It was not until a year later that Wang Shu received his master's degree after a new defense.
Main achievements
The above works and a number of professional papers have been published in selected works of contemporary young architects in China, selected works of young architects in the Architectural Department of Southeast University, essence of interior design in China, architects, today's pioneer, time architecture, interior landscape, interior, fashion and other domestic publications.
Architectural point of view
If we want to explore Wang Shu's architectural ideas, we must find them from his specific works. Xu Jiang, President of the Chinese Academy of fine arts, gave the whole new campus to Wang Shu. Wang Shu didn't live up to his trust. He didn't make the new campus of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, the most poetic city in China, into a unified modern architectural planning model of Contemporary universities. Instead, he built it into a modern campus It is a new campus with the beauty of Peach Blossom Land and the characteristics of traditional countryside. In Xiangshan Campus, Wang Shu abandoned the classical planning methods of modern architecture, removed the axis relationship and symmetry relationship without site significance, and took the surrounding environment as the biggest basis of architectural planning, thus forming a free, loose and tight planning mode with clear field relationship. Wang Shu retained a piece of farmland in the campus, used the old bricks and tiles of traditional buildings demolished due to urbanization, and also tried to achieve the relationship between the building and the site with a simple and beautiful shape full of traditional memory.
Get honor
In 2003, the project of "vertical courtyard - Qianjiang era high-rise residential complex" won the silver award of the 10th National Art Exhibition;
In 2004, the library project of Wenzheng College of Suzhou University won the China Architectural Art Award.
In 2005, Ningbo wusanfang project won the Asia Pacific honor award of Holcim Sustainable Architecture Award.
In 2005, the first phase project of Xiangshan Campus of China Academy of fine arts won the academic award of China Architectural Art Yearbook.
In June 1999, he participated in the experimental architecture exhibition of Chinese young architects at the conference of Beijing International Association for construction.
In 2008, the project of "vertical courtyard - Qianjiang era high rise residential complex" was nominated by Germany Global High Rise Building Award.
In 2010, the work "decaying dome" won the special prize of Venice Biennale of the year.
In 2010, together with his wife Lu Wenyu, he won the Schelling Architectural Practice Award in Germany.
In 2011, he won the gold medal of French Academy of architecture.
At the end of 2011, Wang Shu was employed as the honorary professor of Dan Xiajian in the Graduate School of Harvard University. (Professor Wang Shu is the first Chinese architectural scholar who has won the honor of "Dan Xia Jian San" honorary chair professor, who is awarded by Harvard University as an architect with outstanding achievements all over the world
In 2012, he won the Pritzker Prize, the world's highest Architectural Award. He became the first Chinese to win the prize. He was also the second Chinese architect to win the prize after I.M. Pei in 1983, and the world's fourth youngest Pritzker winner. (on May 25, 2012, the Pritzker Architecture Prize ceremony was held at the Great Hall of the people in Beijing. )
In 2014, he was awarded the honorary doctor of social sciences degree of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
On December 14, 2019, he was named "influential person of the year" and "cultural person of the year".
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