The winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tuesday, is Liu Jiakun. The prize, established in 1979, is commonly referred to as "the Nobel Prize of architecture." Liu is from ...

Editor’s Note: Wang Shu became the first Chinese architect to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize earlier this year. The 48-year-old founded his practice, Amateur Architecture Studio, in 1997 ...

Throughout its 46-year history, architecture’s most prestigious prize has often been won by icon-builders: the apparent lone geniuses who imprint their visions, signature-like, on the world. It is ...

The prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Liu Jiakun, a visionary architect from Chengdu, China, whose ...

I first went to China in 2002, a year after the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2008 Summer Games to Beijing. That initial trip was about exploring nature, cuisine, ancient temples, ...

The annual Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Liu Jiakun of China, who earned the field’s highest honor for “affirming architecture that celebrates the lives of ordinary citizens,” ...