The winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tuesday, is Liu Jiakun. The prize, established in 1979, is commonly referred to as "the Nobel Prize of architecture." Liu is from ...

In July of this year, the new Sanxingdui Museum was officially completed. This large museum, located in the southwestern city of Guanghan, just outside Chengdu, was designed to house the ever-growing ...

Throughout its 46-year history, architecture’s most prestigious prize has often been won by icon-builders: the apparent lone geniuses who imprint their visions, signature-like, on the world. It is ...

Family tree of Chinggis Khan -- Introduction. Mongol lords, Chinese architecture, visions of empire -- Wall-enclosed spaces -- The century before the Mongol century -- Official Yuan construction -- ...