Pritzker Prize–winner Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, his partner, tie a museum and cultural complex in Fuyang to China’s rich traditions of landscape painting.
In recent decades, Southeast Asia has become a vibrant laboratory of high-density urbanism with places such as Singapore, Bangkok, and Hong Kong packing more people into taller buildings on smaller parcels of land.
A short walk down a ramshackle alley typical of Beijing’s hutong neighborhoods leads to a pivoting steel door deeply recessed between a pair of gray-brick buildings.