Wang Shu, architect: “The way to modernize China was to destroy it. To demolish everything”

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Wang Shu, architect: “The way to modernize China was to destroy it. To demolish everything”

Wang Shu (Urumqi, China, 60 years old) participated last year in Mugak/International Architecture Biennial of the Basque Country, held in San Sebastian, showing his famous Ningbo History Museum, whose façade was built with debris from demolitions. The only architect in his country to have won the Pritzker Prize, his way of recycling materials and opposing from scratch was traditional in China, but today it is revolutionary. The interview took pl…