Letter from London

摘要

This year's Pritzker Prize is to be awarded to Chinese architect Wang Shu in acknowledgement of an extraordinary architectural life-story - a story which a rapt audience enjoyed at the Australian Institute of Architects' conference in Brisbane last week. Introduced by Glenn Murcutt, another Pritzker Prize-winner whose work is at the slow end of the slow/ fast spectrum, Wang outlined the results of 10 years of conservation projects that run directly counter to the mainstream activities of the architecture, development and construction industries in contemporary China.