Connecting the Past With the Future
Accompanying the announcement of Liu Jiakun as the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize are a handful of short films that find the Chengdu-based architect describing his design process and discussing some of his most important works.
Watch “A Person, An Architect,” in which Liu speaks from his Chengdu studio about his approach to architecture:
Watch “Connecting Past, Present and Future,” about two liquor museums — the Shuijingfang Museum, a cultural heritage site in Chengdu, and the Renovation of Tianbao Cave District of Erlang Town in Luzhou:
Watch “Materials as Memory,” in which Liu discusses the recycled brick project and the Hu Huishan Memorial, both born from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake:
Watch “Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum: Coexisting with Nature,” about the small museum his eponymous studio completed more than twenty years ago:
Watch “West Village: A Megastructure, A Masterpiece,” about the full-block courtyard building in Chengdu that is topped by a 1.6-km track: