Architect Wang Shu

Wang Shu

Living place: China

Birthday: 4-11-1963 (61 years old)

Population of the world 1963: 3.205 billions

Global rank: #71653

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Who is Architect Wang Shu?
Award-winning Chinese architect from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Blending traditional Chinese aesthetics with modern projects. He is known for designing the Library of Wenzheng College and the Vertical Courtyard of Soochow University's Hangzhou apartment.
He won the 2012 Pritzker Prize, the top honor in the world of architecture and the first Chinese citizen to receive the award. He was also named to Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2013.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He started drawing and painting without any form of training in art and also read as many books as he could get his hands on.

Family life info

He was born in Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in remote areas of Western China. He married fellow architect Lu Wenyu, and in 1997, they founded Amateur Architecture Studio.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Architect Wang Shu?
He and I. M. Pei both became world-renowned Chinese-born architects.

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Summary of Wang Shu profile

When was Architect Wang Shu born?
Wang Shu birthday 4-11-1963 (at the age of 61).
Where is Architect Wang Shu's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Wang Shu was born in China. is a Architect, whose Zodiac is Scorpius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Cat. Wang Shu's global rank is 71653 and whose rank is 108 in list of famous Architect. Population of the world in 1963 is about 3.205 billions persons.
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Events in 1963 and 4-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Wang Shu

  • France and West Germany sign treaty of cooperation ending four centuries of conflict (Jan. 22).
  • Pope John XXIII dies (June 3), and is succeeded June 21 by Cardinal Montini, who becomes Paul VI.
  • British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns in the wake of an affair with Christine Keeler, a teenage showgirl who was also involved with the Soviet naval attaché (June).
  • Washington-to-Moscow "hot line" communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war (Aug. 30). Background: cold war
  • Kenya achieves independence.
  • There are 15,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam. Background: Vietnam War
  • 32 independent African nations establish the Organization for African Unity.

Birthday Wang Shu (4-11) in history

  • Day 4-11 year 1842: Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, , Illinois
  • Day 4-11 year 1880: James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented the first cash register.
  • Day 4-11 year 1922: Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.
  • Day 4-11 year 1924: Nellie T. Ross of Wyoming was elected the nation's first woman governor, to serve out the term of her husband who died in office.
  • Day 4-11 year 1956: Russian troops attacked Budapest and crushed the Hungarian revolt under Premier Imre Nagy.
  • Day 4-11 year 1979: The American embassy in Tehran, Iran, was seized by militants and 90 Americans were taken hostage.
  • Day 4-11 year 1995: Israeli Prime Minister, and Nobel Laureate, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by a right-wing Israeli.
  • Day 4-11 year 2008: Democratic senator Barack Obama wins the presidential election against Sen. John McCain, taking 338 electoral votes to McCain's 161. Obama makes history as the first African American U.S. president.
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