1 day ago · Liu Jiakun (born 1956 in Chengdu, China) is a Chinese architect known for his focus on minimalism, humanism, and locally contextual design. In 2025, he won the Pritzker Prize. [1] [2] Early life and education. Liu was born in 1956 in Chengdu, in the Sichuan Province of China.

1 day ago · Liu Jiakun's work is not defined by stylistic repetition but by a deep response to site, materials, and social needs. He believes architecture should emerge naturally from its context, responding ...

1 day ago · Liu Jiakun’s pathway to architecture was neither linear nor expected. Born in 1956 in Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, he spent much of his childhood in the corridors of Chengdu Second People’s Hospital, founded as Gospel Hospital in 1892, where his mother was an internist. He credits the environment of the Christian medical institute ...

1 day ago · Liu Jiakun, unveiled as 2025’s laureate on Tuesday, has spent much of his four-decade career designing understated academic buildings, museums and public spaces in his home city of Chengdu (and ...

2 days ago · At 17, Liu Jiakun was sent to labor in the countryside as part of China’s “re-education” efforts during the Cultural Revolution. “I didn’t see a clear future for me — a lot of things ...

1 day ago · Liu Jiakun is the winner of the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Above, Liu's West Village commercial complex, built in Chengdu in 2015, fills an entire block with buildings, bike paths ...

1 day ago · The annual Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Liu Jiakun of China, who earned the field’s highest honor for “affirming architecture that celebrates the lives of ordinary citizens,” organizers announced Tuesday.. Liu, based in Chengdu in China’s southwestern Sichuan region, has said that the purpose of his architecture “is to create a beautiful, just and …

1 day ago · Liu Jiakun is the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, making him the 54th recipient of the annual prize. Jiakun is based in Chengdu, China, the same city he was born in. He founded his ...

1 day ago · Liu Jiakun, a Chengdu-based architect whose work can be both muscular and nimble, has been named the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. His buildings often employ traditional Chinese elements such as walled enclosures and gardens, but do so in modern and poetic ways. For example, his Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum, completed ...

1 day ago · Architecture was not Liu Jiakun’s first choice. Before it on his list of potential subjects to study came medical sciences (to please his parents), storage management and tannery.