Congratulations to Liu Jiakun, the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate. His work centers on the everyday lives of his fellow citizens. In 1999, he founded Jiakun Architects in Chengdu, driven by the conviction that architecture possesses transcendent power—while remaining rooted in community, spirituality, tradition, and existing context. As the 2025 jury noted: "Identity reflects both individual and collective belonging to place. Liu Jiakun engages Chinese tradition not through nostalgia or ambiguity, but as a catalyst for innovation. He creates architecture that simultaneously functions as historical document, infrastructure, landscape, and remarkable public space."

Currently a visiting professor at the School of Architecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Liu has taught at prestigious institutions worldwide, including the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine in Paris, MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and leading Chinese universities. His honors include the Far Eastern Architectural Design Outstanding Award (2007, 2017); ASC Grand Architectural Creation Award (2009); Architectural Record China Awards (2010); WA Awards for Chinese Architecture (2016); Building with Nature Architecture China Award (2020); Sanlian Lifeweek City for Humanity Award for Public Contribution (2020); and UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation—New Design in Heritage Contexts (2021).

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