Writing Material: Loneliness is for Amazing Bloom--Wang Shu_3000 words

When he was small, he was lonely because no one played with him. He fell in love with drawing and often doodled alone at home. When he was a little bit older, he used chalk to draw little people, trains, and houses on the gray wall. From the time he started elementary school, he felt different from others. "People said that this kid was puritanical. In fact, when I play with others, I always feel that there are two of me, one playing and one watching calmly from the side." He likes to draw and read books, thinking of being a famous painter when he grows up.　　When he was filling out his aspirations after the college entrance exam, his parents were adamantly opposed to his artistic dreams. He did not argue, towards his parents dropped a sentence: if science and technology can draw and paint he will read. Originally, it was just an arbitrary excuse, but unexpectedly, his parents really found a major where he could draw and paint, called "Architecture Department".　　What does an architect do? At that time, not to mention he didn't know, not many people in China knew. The architecture department was restored in 1977, and it was 1981 when he went to the Nanjing Institute of Technology (Southeast University). Not only the architecture department, but also the university resumed classes at the end of the Cultural Revolution, and the society was in an atmosphere of hungry adolescence. He said that the president at that time was Qian Zhongshu cousin Qian Zhong Han, had been in Europe for six or seven years, bouncing around four or five schools, did not get a degree on the return, Qian Zhong Han had told him: "Do not be superstitious teacher, to learn by yourself. If you work hard to read for three days, you will find that the teacher did not prepare for the class, directly ask a few questions can make the teacher down."　　So to the sophomore year, he began to skip classes, often soaked in the library to read books, Chinese and Western philosophy, art theory, history and humanities ...... to see the darkness. Thinking back to that time, he said, "just reform and opening up, everyone has a strong desire to learn about the outside world."　　After graduation, he entered the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, wanted to do something like architectural education, but found that the art world knows nothing about architecture. In order to make a living, he worked for a company under the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, and got married at the age of 27 or 28, living a quiet life. But he always felt not free, and the other him was there watching, with a cold cleansing gaze. After a few years, he finally chose to resign.　　In the next ten years, those architects around him became rich, while he seemed to be insulated from architectural design, living a life of reclusion, soaking in the construction site all day long to engage in manual labor with the craftsmen, hanging around the West Lake, drinking tea, reading books, visiting friends.　　In solitude, he did not give up thinking about architecture. He does not encourage demolition, does not want to "repair the old as new" on old houses, does not like landmark buildings, and hardly does commercial projects. In China, where the countryside is rapidly urbanizing and the industrialization of architectural design is taking place, he has always kept a certain distance from the trend, which has made him controversial, and even more, made him unique, and also made his otherness become greatness.　　Although his preference for traditional architecture had once made him curvaceous, he stood firm on his ideals. "I'm going to walk alone in silence and see how far I can go." Based on this idea, in the past eight years, from the five scattered houses to the Ningbo Museum and the transformation of Hangzhou's South Song Dynasty Imperial Street, he is "alternative persistence", "my principle is that after the transformation, the building will smile at you."　　His name is Wang Shu, 49 years old, is the dean of China Academy of Art School of Architecture and Art.　　On the afternoon of May 25, 2012, the Pritzker Prize Award Ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People, and Wang Shu mounted the podium. This weight is equivalent to the "Nobel" and "Oscar" international architecture awards, for the first time in the hands of the Chinese.　　"I have to thank those years of lonely time." Talking about the secret of success, Wang Shu said, because of loneliness at a young age, cultivated an interest in drawing, as well as a kind of ignorant concept of architecture; after graduation, because of loneliness, able to calm down and think, and a lot of future design inspiration comes from that period.　　Although Zhang Chu sang in his song, "Loneliness is shameful, life blooms like a flower, we can't let ourselves wither." But we can't forget another sentence: "The truly outstanding people must feel that they are lonely, and they are also conscious of the fact that their excellence comes from a loneliness."　　Wang Shu is lonely, but the formation of China's first brand of real estate should be grateful for this solitude; Zhang Haidi is lonely, the wheelchair writer with amazing focus and perseverance, completed the often unimaginable writings; Agam and Xu Sanduo is lonely, but with the unique sincerity and tenacity to amaze the world.　　When it was hardest, I relied on her salary to support me Zhu Lubing While skyscrapers made of reinforced concrete are rising in every city, there is this architect with a humanistic temperament who, together with his "amateur architecture studio", uses recycled materials and old bricks and tiles to create a number of simple and profound works, which have won the favor of both Chinese and foreign judges, and won the 2012 World Architecture Prize. He was awarded the Pritzker Prize 2012, the highest award in the world for architecture. He is Prof. Wang Shu, dean of the School of Architecture and Art at the China Academy of Art.　　As the first person in China to win this award, yesterday afternoon, Professor Wang, who just returned from lecturing in the United States, attended a media conference at the Xiangshan campus of the Academy of Fine Arts, telling reporters about his architectural philosophy of revering nature and his thinking and adherence to traditional Chinese culture. The spacious conference room was packed with journalists from all over the country, and even journalists from the Russian news agency and the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun traveled all the way to see this master architect.　　The reason for winning the award is that it transcends cultural conflicts Whether it is the Xiangshan campus of the China Academy of Art, full of ink and wash, the simple and elegant Southern Song Dynasty Imperial Street, or the Ningbo Museum, which awakens the memory of an entire city, they are all a perfect combination of classical and modern, art and nature, and exude a gentle and elegant oriental temperament.　　Unlike architects who always follow international trends, Wang Shu pays more attention to the balance between modernity and tradition, artificiality and nature. "I have an aversion to all the tall and imposing landmark buildings in the city, and many of my creative ideas are learned from the countryside." He advocates learning from the countryside, using natural materials and building "light" houses. He also adheres to tradition, as the exterior wall of the Ningbo Museum, which he designed, consists of a mixture of "tile valve walls" and "bamboo formwork concrete," and "many old people touch the wall and say it reminds them of their own homes. "　　The reason for taking home the Pritzker Prize, Wang Shu attributes to the phrase that his work transcends the clash of cultures. "The conflict between tradition and modernity, the conflict between East and West, the conflict between the strong and the weak ...... we have to use wisdom to make them dissolve." As Wang Shu's largest group work, the picturesque Xiangshan Campus of the China Academy of Art is an in-depth exploration of his architectural model. In order to fully explore the availability and economic practicality of building materials, Prof. Wang collected more than 7 million old bricks and discarded tiles of different ages from house demolition sites around the world and brought them back to life on roofs and walls. "What I want to create is a campus with the atmosphere of a traditional Chinese academy, not a cookie-cutter university town." Wang Shu said.　　Without her all the programs would not be possible to become a reality When Wang Shu won the award, because he was in the United States, his wife, Lu Wenyu, who also teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts, became the object of media competition. Yesterday was March 8 Women's Day, talking about the woman behind the successful man, Wang Shu smiled happily: "When I won the award, I was thinking, this honor is *** belongs to me and her two people. My wife has been in the back of the silent support me, and I with sweet *** suffering for more than ten years, to take this award, she can not be credited."　　In 1997, Wang Shu and his wife Lu Wenyu founded the "Amateur Architecture Studio" in Hangzhou. Founded the studio during this time is also the most difficult time in Wang Shu's architectural career, his wife's support moved him: "Mainly rely on her salary to support me, I do odd jobs, occasionally earn a sum of money. I kind of literati loneliness early years have developed, after recognizing his wife, wiped out most of it." In 2010, Wang Shu and his wife were honored with the German Schelling Prize for Architectural Practice. "Maybe without me, all the architectural programs would not exist. But without her, all the programs wouldn't be possible to become reality."　　In his spare time, he never surfed the Internet and rarely watched TV "I have always thought that I am first and foremost a man of letters, who happened to know how to do architecture and learned the business of architecture." In an article titled "Plain and Simple for Home", Wang Shu wrote this. You may find it hard to imagine that this architect, who is now internationally renowned, never goes online in his spare time and seldom watches TV; his interests are writing articles, practicing calligraphy and drinking tea. How can he keep abreast of current affairs and understand what others are saying if he doesn't go online? "For me, keeping inner peace is the most important thing, no matter whether the world is windy or rainy."　　Wang Shu loves calligraphy and copying calligraphy posters, and he says his current architectural style is inextricably linked to practicing calligraphy for more than a decade. In his college days, he was the only one writing in the dormitory at midnight when all the other students were asleep, looking like a "very lonely figure." "Nowadays in China, most of the scholars who can still maintain a close relationship with traditional culture have already passed away or have reached the age of death." What the architect, who loves calligraphy and Chinese landscape painting, wants to do is to retain the culture. "If I don't become an architect, I should choose to be a man of letters." Wang Shu said this.　　About Wang Shu Wang Shu, male, born in November 1963 in Urumqi, Xinjiang, is the dean of the School of Architecture and Art of China Academy of Art, a doctoral supervisor, a leading architectural disciplinarian, and a young and middle-aged disciplinarian of Zhejiang Province Universities and Colleges.He graduated from the Department of Architecture of Nanjing Polytechnic Institute (Southeast University) with a Bachelor's Degree in 1985, and the Architecture Research Institute of Southeast University with a Master's Degree in 1988; he also studied at Zhejiang Academy of Art (Southeast University) in 1988 and 1995, where he was a member. From 1988 to 1995, he worked in Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art).