Pritzker Award goes to Liu Jiakun from China, an architect celebrating the lives of ordinary citizens

Organizers announced on Tuesday that the annual prize of the Pritzker Architecture Award was awarded to Liu Jiakun of China, which received the highest honor in the field to “emphasize architecture that celebrates the lives of ordinary citizens.”

Leo, based in South Western China, said that the purpose of architecture is “creating a beautiful, fair and generous living environment”, and that he is trying to balance commercial needs with the humanitarian needs of the public.

“The architect supports the transcendent power of the built environment through coordinating the cultural, historical, emotional and social dimensions, using architecture to photograph society, inspire mercy and raise the human spirit.”

The statement said that Liu is known to create public areas in high -population cities where there is a few public area, “forming a positive relationship between density and open space.”

The organizers in his western village were martyred in Chengdu, a five -storey project that extends over a bloc. It includes a surrounding path of bicycle and pedestrian passengers on “its cultural, sports, recreational, office and commercial activities at home, while allowing the public to display them to the natural and surrounding environments.”

They also pointed out that the sculpture management at the Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts in Chongqing, which they said exposed an alternative solution to the area to the maximum, “with the presence of higher levels abroad to extend square shots of narrow design.”

In an interview on Sunday in his office in Chengdu, Leo said he was not one of these architects who liked to have a visual style that can be recognized strongly. Instead, he said, he pays more attention to the method and strategy.

“Many architects use a strong personal style and a shape for a foothold in the world,” Liu told Associated Press, speaking in Mandarin. “Regardless of his whereabouts, people can immediately say that he works with a very strong symbolism. But I am not a kind of architect.”

“I don’t want to have a clear or clear method that can be recognized as my security only at a glimpse,” he said. “I follow a more systematic and strategic approach. I hope that when I go to a specific place, I can use my systematic and strategy to adapt to local conditions. I would like to completely understand the place, then I am looking for resources and problems … then it is distilled and improved, and finally (this) turns into my work.”

Liu also said he is trying to balance his country’s artistic and architectural heritage with the facts of modern technology.

He said: “I think traditional architecture in China is very wonderful and classic, but it is a result of its time,” he said.

He said he hoped to understand in depth “the objective part of the traditions that can live”, then express it with technology and contemporary language. In this way, he said: “Traditions can be used as a nucleus … but your work is contemporary.”

Liu said he was also seeking to balance commercial necessities with civil concerns.

“The rapid development of cities at the present time is the capital. He said,” It is natural for the capital to make profits. “But he added:” You have to leave the audience the space they deserve. Only in this way, the city’s development can be positive and healthy, rather than being completely high, as people live in drawers and boxes … without even a place to go to it and there is no space to call. “

Liu is the Pritzker Award for Architecture, which was created by the late entrepreneur Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy. The winners receive a $ 100,000 grant and a bronze medal.

The award was often equal to a Nobeel. When asked if he believed that honor would affect his life, Liu replied: “I thought about it. But I want to keep normal life … I don’t want to feel nervous about everything. Of course, it has its advantages. Certainly I will not need to promote myself a lot. But will it also make me better at work? Not necessarily. Excessive expectations may become pressure.”

He also had another concern.

“Will it make me very busy and prevent me from working more?” to think. “I hope to stay normal life and freedom, as well as calm.”

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Wayne Chang, a great video producer in AP from Chengdu, China contributed