Pritzker laureate wants architects to focus on 'small but beautiful'

Architect Wang Shu, the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2012 and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. During the two sessions, Wang Shu, the 2012 Pritzker recipient and who is also a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, told China Daily on Wednesday that Liu's win is encouraging news for Chinese architects. Liu's work, West Village, 2015, Chengdu, China Based in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, representative works of Liu, a novelist-turned-architect, include the West Village and the Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum in Chengdu, with a preference to traditional craft and raw local materials that sustain the economy and environment, built for and by the community. This aligns with the Government Work Report delivered on Wednesday, which emphasizes coordinated implementation of major landmark projects alongside "small but beautiful" programs to improve people's livelihood.