Liu Jiakun   China   Erected after the devastating earthquake that struck Wenchuan – a county in China’s Sichuan province – in 2008, this memorial honors Hu Huishan, a 15-year-old high-schooler who perished in the cataclysm. The pavilion’s shape recalls the emergency ten

China   Used to visiting architecture exhibitions in which buildings are interpreted through plans, drawings and models, the organizers of this event – CIPEA, China International Practical Exhibition of Architecture – tried to make a change and show building

Liu Jiakun   China   The site chosen to build this community center is a plot with a gentle slope towards the lake, to which it is adjoined at the point where it forks. The building makes up for its large size (10,000 square meters) with a strategy of fragmentation into

Liu Jiakun   China   When, after a period of meditation and reflection, prince Siddhartha decided to extend his doctrine to the rest of humankind, he preached his first sermon in Deer Park near Benares. In Chinese, the word ‘luye’ literally means ‘a field with deer’ and,

Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins Pritzker 2025 Born in 1956, Liu Jiakun lives and works in his native city, Chengdu, capital of the province of Sichuan in southwest China, where he opened his practice in 1999. He grew up in a family of physicians, b

CNN   As a first foray outside Britain for the Serpentine Gallery's hugely successful series of temporary pavilions, a row of 38 steel rods pulled taut by cables...

Li Xiangning   The Beijing joint exhibition of ten years of work of MADA s.p.a.m., Jiakun Architects and Urbanus and the seminar held in March 2010 were a landmark event for Chinese contemporary architecture in recent years. The three firms have built mainly in fiv