Wang Lu on Architecture and Travel

Interview Date: 10-08-2011

What is the importance of Architectural Tourism?

First of all, it is important for to the city development because architecture has some context; it’s not only an object so for the architect tourism is to know something important about the city where the building is located and its context. It is a general introduction of the architectural generation of the country and how he is thinking about architecture.

What is the importance of Architectural events (like WAF that is hosting us here) worldwide? Which are the profits for a city holding such kind of major events?

We can have this platform for the communication and for open our eyes to see what’s happened on the world and it’s also for the communication among the people and in architecture class. It could be a link later to promote the relationship between the colleagues from different countries.

At the end, can you please provide your personal proposal for 10 buildings (constructed and visitable) which you think as the most important worldwide that someone must visit anyway?

From my generation I like some buildings of Le Corbusierand Mies Van der Rohe. I also like Alvaro Siza.

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Wang Lu

Architect
Country: China

Bio

Wang Lu was born in 1963 in Zhejiang, China, and entered the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University in 1979, received the Master’s degree of Architecture and began working as an assistant in the School of Architecture in Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1987. Since 1991, he had pursued study in Hanover University in Germany. He received the Ph.D. in 1997.

Now he is a professor at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, chief editor of World Architecture Magazine. which is the most influential Architecture Magazine in China. Besides the professorship in the university, he leads also the architectural office “in+of architecture”, doing planning and design practice in China.

His works are published in many magazines and books such as in AV, Architectural Record, Bauwelt, Made in China etc. He is international active, has given lecture in ETH, TU Berlin, UNSW etc. and participated many exhibitions in China and abroad.

He is Council Member of the Architecture Society of China. Consultant of city planning for many cities in China. He is the curator for the Chinese Pavilion of the 1st international Architecture Triennale in Lisbon (TAL’07).

He lives and works in Beijing.:: Photo information and credits:

1 > Gulou Shopping Plaza, Tianjin
Photo courtesy © Wang Lu

2-3 > Maopingcun Village School, Hunan
Photo courtesy © Wang Lu

4 > Ningbo Museum, Ningbo
Photo courtesy © Wang Lu

5 > Pavilion in Sanjiangkou Park, Ningbo
Photo courtesy © Wang Lu

6 > Tiantai Museum, Zhejiang
Photo courtesy © Wang Lu

7 > Tourist Center of Changguangxi Park, Wuxi
Photo courtesy © Wang Lu