Wang Shu, Shu, pronounced Tongshu, Meaning Of Timely Rain, won the Putzlik Prize in 2012 – the Nobel Prize in architecture, representing architecture as the Xiangshan Campus of China Academy of Art (Hangzhou) and the Ningbo Museum. The last Chinese to win this award was I.M. Pei (representative works of Bank of China Tower, Suzhou Museum, etc.).
Wang Shu recently published a book called "Building a House", summarizing his architectural consciousness and architectural language, and I will share with you the following Yoshimitsu Katayu.
China Academy of Art Xiangshan Campus
Wang Shu has formed an architectural philosophy by feeling Chinese gardens and Landscape Paintings of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. He begins with a clear meaning, or so to speak, that he has three mantras for his disciples: Before I became an architect, I was first and foremost a literati; not first thinking about what is important, but thinking about what is interesting; building a house is to build a small world. Let me simplify it again, that is, to be a person, to be an interesting person, to be a person with a world of self.
He mentions the Rong Knee Jai Tu, saying that building a house depends first and foremost on man's attitude toward the world. I looked at the figure, a large blank space, filled with vast smoke waves, a small pavilion, and a kneeling knee. There is a picturesque preface, the spring breeze in the corner of the house is more apricot blossoms, and Xiao Zhai rong knees to spend his years. So the house doesn't have to be too big, or even a little smaller.
He revisited the garden a hundred times, and he realized the profound meaning of the Suzhou garden "Cui Linglong", he said, the light is a kind of dim brightness, and people in it will be moved by the fluttering of bamboo shadows in the breeze.
In the construction of the Ningbo Museum, he asked for the dense use of dark red tiles on the "tile wall" at the top of the building, so that it could reflect the sunset and leave a trace of afterglow. At the same time, he also said, the appearance of the building is not important, what is important is the view from the inside and outside. Well, the glass curtain wall and dry hanging marble will die first.
I summarize it in three words: changing scenery, twists and turns, and unexpected. The Xiangshan Campus of china academy of art (Hangzhou) is an excellent practice of this theory.
He mentioned the painting of Shen Zhou in the Ming Dynasty, I guess it is "Qingyuan Tu", Night View Stu, Shen Zhou sat alone in the middle hall of three tile houses, holding a book to listen to the wind on the river, the picture was empty and scattered.
As for Wang Shu's architectural language, the first is inheritance, when building the Ningbo Museum, he carried forward the most traditional craftsmanship method in Ningbo - "tile wall", and at the same time combined with bamboo formwork concrete, solved the problem that the "tile wall" could not create a multi-storey building. This construction method has spread, and the construction team of the museum is hot. Some Ningbo citizens repeatedly visited the museum, he said, the old house has been demolished, only the bricks and tiles here can see my past life.
The second is the cycle (you see, I don't want to use the word environmental protection), when the Construction of the Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Art (Hangzhou), he accepted the suggestion of the engineering supervisor, using old bricks and tiles, the supervisor found two brick and tile dealers, the traffickers found more waste collectors, where to demolish the old houses in Zhejiang Province, where to go, received and sent to the campus, a time piled up like a sea, and finally used three million and three million pieces, corresponding to the cost of building materials fell by 50%.
Ningbo Museum
Finally, revisit the Words of the Putzlik Prize and express my respects: Wang Shu opened up a new horizon for us, but also resonated between the scene and the memory. His architecture is ingenious and evoking the past, without directly using elements of history.