Described by the jury that awarded Wang Shu the Pritzker Prize as “frank,” “collaborative,” “message-sending,” “unpredictable,” “careful,” “spontaneous,” “responsible,” De Monchaux wonders if, perhaps, Wang’s work doesn’t display “qualities that one would want in, say, the lively and free citizenry of a functional democratic republic,” so that, because they appear/are deployed in a society which is anything but, a statement is inevitably made (25 May 2012). To which I add: Isn’t this also an instance of architecture acting/being rhetorical? Read about it here: “Toward a Dissident Architecture?”
