Wang Shu is the only Chinese architect to have won the Pritzker Prize. His famous Ningbo History Museum has a façade built with rubble from demolitions.
He defends updating the tradition of Japanese or Korean crafts. “The way to modernize China was to raze it. For demolishing everything, deleting everything, running out of memory,” he says. ‘Architecture cannot neglect people. It seemed like they just wanted to build more and more and bigger and bigger’