Pritzker Prize of $100,000 Won by Protesting Chinese Architect
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Architect Wang Shu’s answer to the wholesale destruction of historic Chinese cities is to collect the stones of demolished buildings and install them in new ones.
The Hyatt Foundation of Chicago announced today that Wang has won the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize. He will receive $100,000 and a bronze medallion this May in Beijing.