Celebrating Liu Jiakun's Pritzker Prize win: a unique blend of traditional Chinese elements and contemporary design for enriched urban living.

Liu is the 54th Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the founder of Jiakun Architecture, established in 1999.

Today, the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize was awarded to Chinese architect Liu Jiakun, a Chengdu-based talent whose human-centered designs aim to elevate everyday life. The 69-year-old architect and ...

“Architecture should reveal something—it ... China, 2007), and the Suzhou Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick (Suzhou, China, 2016). Other projects include the Lancui Pavilion of Egret Gulf ...

Working exclusively in China, the architect is best-known for his urban ... Photo courtesy of Yao Li Suzhou Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick, China, 2016 Historical ruins were protected for the ...

Liu, 69, is the 54th Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, also the second laureate from China after Wang Shu in 2012.

The Suzhou Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick is Liu's project in East China's Jiangsu Province. In order to preserve the local's imperial kiln heritage for gold bricks, the architect has given minimal ...

His firm is also behind the Department of Sculpture and the Design Department for Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (2004 and 2006), Hu Huishan Memorial (2009) and Suzhou Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick (2016 ...

Liu Jiakun is the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate ... (2007); Lancui Pavilion of Egret Gulf Wetland (2013); and Suzhou Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick (2016). Beyond institutional work ...

“Architecture should reveal something—it ... which features a community sports field at its center. The Suzhou Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick (2016) in Suzhou, China, is a flat-roofed modern ...

The architect has often turned to his country’s history for inspiration. Traditional pavilions informed the flat rooftop eaves of his Museum of Imperial Kiln Brick in Suzhou; the wraparound ...