Ningbo, with rich cultural accumulation and long history and culture, is a typical water town and harbor city in the south of the Yangtze River, and is the southern end of China's Grand Canal.

It was two months ago since Su Leqing proposed, and after the proposal was successful, Su Leqing and Lin Mengyue began to travel that they had prepared for a long time, and Lin Mengyue made the travel route early, and the first place to go was the place where their class organized the tour - Pearl Spring.

For this place, Su Leqing and Lin Mengyue both sighed a lot, this seems to be the place where Su Leqing confessed to Lin Mengyue for the first time, followed by the Jiangxiang Village Scenic Area in Changshu City, when he arrived here, Su Leqing naturally took Lin Mengyue to visit the permanent secretary, so many years have passed, the permanent secretary has retired, but for Su Leqing, he still remembers it clearly, that night, the permanent secretary took the villagers to hold a grand welcome party, and when he saw Lin Mengyue, the old secretary also rarely jokingly asked him if he remembered the village's accountant Bi Qian。

Su Leqing directly pretended to be stupid and said that he didn't remember, but Lin Mengyue was very interested in Su Leqing's experience, and pestered the old secretary to talk about it.

learned from the old secretary that after he left, Bi Qian waited for two years, but did not see Su Leqing coming, and finally chose to marry due to family pressure, Su Leqing can only express regret, to be honest, Bi Qian is a girl with the same gentle character as Lin Mengyue, but unfortunately the two of them just met in Pingshui and had no fate.

After leaving from Jiangxiang Village, the two went to the capital again, visited the Forbidden City, climbed the Great Wall, and experienced the majesty of the Great Wall......

Sian......

Chengdu ......

Kaifeng......

Hangzhou ......

Suzhou ......

In two months, the two can be said to have turned half of China around, and Su Leqing also experienced the characteristics of various local buildings, the north is wide open and close, majestic and magnificent, and the south is beautiful and dexterous, poetic and picturesque.

In the past, Su Leqing has always wanted to travel around to see the characteristics of buildings in various places, and this time he finally got his wish.

And their last stop is Ningbo, and Su Leqing's destination is the Ningbo Museum, which has been built for two years, and the reason why they came here is mainly because this building was designed by Wang Shu, a Chinese architect who won the Pritzker Prize in 2012.

This master Wang Shu is also a madman, because his mother is a librarian, so he began to read some books translated from abroad since he was a child, and even read everything in college.

At that time, the Cultural Revolution had just passed, and there was a serious shortage of talents in colleges and universities, which caused the level of the teacher to be inferior to Wang Shu, and he himself said that the things that the teacher talked about were compared with what he saw, superficial and naïve, conservative and outdated.

And he also paid the price for his youthful frivolity, in his dissertation, he directly put forward a 'three-no theory', saying that there is no modern architectural theory in China, there are no modern architects, and there is no modern architecture.

Although the paper was unanimously approved by the supervisor judges, it was beeped in the hands of the thesis review committee.

After all, those dissertation review committees have become modern architects in China, and as a result, you wrote that there are no modern architects, no modern architecture, and no modern architectural theory in China, isn't this a slap in the face?

So Master Wang Shu failed to get a master's degree in the end.

At that time, it was in 1988, the climax of the reform and opening of the house, designers at home and abroad were gearing up, ready to show their strength, and he retreated bravely, chose to live in seclusion in Hangzhou, and lived with construction workers, at that time, Chinese architects were full of only fast and money, there was nothing else at all, and Master Wang Shu was thinking about what kind of road to take, in this ten years of retirement, he had almost no architectural works, but it was such a person, in 2012 won China's first and only Pritzker Architecture Prize。

Ten years of sharpening a sword, once sharpened!

Overnight, Wang Shu became the most well-known architect at home and abroad.

Su Leqing still admires this master very much, but unfortunately he has never had the opportunity to see it.

In the past two months, he has not done nothing, and after reading the base information given by Huawei, he has been brewing a design plan in his mind, but although there are many plans, he lacks the core idea, that is, how to build modern Chinese buildings.

Prior to this, the modern architecture he designed could only be regarded as foreign modern architecture, and if he wanted to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, he could only design a modern building with the characteristics of his own nation and country, that is, Chinese modern architecture.

This seems to be a very simple proposition, as long as the building is mixed with some Chinese elements, it can be called modern Chinese architecture, but this is only the most superficial, the most superficial, if there is no Chinese element under the premise, others will see this building will know for the first time, this is modern Chinese architecture, this is the essence and soul of modern Chinese architecture.

And there is no doubt that the highest achievement in this area must belong to Master Wang Shu, so Su Leqing is ready to come over to visit the Ningbo Museum to see if he can learn or understand something from it.

"Le Qing, why is the top of this museum oblique?" Walking under the museum, Lin Mengyue asked.

Su Leqing looked up and down: "The architectural form of Ningbo Museum is designed with the concept of mountain, water and ocean, the first floor is the whole, but from the second floor, the building begins to split and tilt, forming the shape of a mountain. Together with the waters to the north of the venue, the whole building resembles a ship ashore. ”

"This architectural pattern reflects the geographical form of Ningbo and its characteristics as a port city, and the walls of the museum are decorated in two ways. The first way is to use millions of bricks and tiles collected by the people of the Ming and Qing dynasties to build a tile wall by hand, reflecting the characteristics of the south of the Yangtze River and the concept of conservation, and the other way is to use bamboo strips to add concrete, showing the texture of bamboo on the surface, reflecting the concept of environmental protection. ”

"And don't you notice that we walk under the museum, the two sides look like the alleys of the Jiangnan water town? The whole building does not have many Chinese elements in it, but it can make people feel a strong Chinese style, this kind of handmade tile wall made of bricks and tiles of the Ming and Qing dynasties gives people a thick sense of history, and the green bamboo next to it plays a finishing touch, it is indeed worthy of the master, and it is no wonder that it can win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Su Leqing sighed while looking at it.

At the beginning, he failed to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and he was a little unconvinced, but when he saw this, he was really convinced, and only such a master can receive such an honor.

"Let's go into the museum. Su Leqing took Lin Mengyue's hand and walked in.

As soon as he entered the museum, Su Leqing felt that the atmosphere was wrong, because there were too many people inside, and there were even many reporters.

"Isn't this Master Wang Shu?" Su Leqing suddenly said with joy.

"Yes, this is the first time that Master Wang Shu has returned to the Ningbo Museum after winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The reporter next to him replied while taking pictures.