Arquitectura Viva 272: Liu Jiakun - Pritzker Prize 2025

The magazines of AV had barely published flashes of the exquisite and silent work of Liu Jiakun, an architect who at the outset was keener on persevering in his career as a novelist than on mastering the art of building. But in the heat of his recent distinction with the Pritzker Prize, Arquitectura Viva offers a run-through of his trajectory through six projects of civic scope that melt into intense spatial and narrative experiences where memory and the everyday overlap poetically.