“I Let Architecture be Deeply Rooted in a Specific Culture": In Conversation with Zhu Pei

Oct Art Center, Photo by Xia Zhi. Image Courtesy of Zhu Pei Studio“This is going to be amazing! I feel so excited,” says Zhu Pei about his now under-construction Majiayao Ruins Museum and Observatory in Lintao, Gansu province. The Beijing-based architect designed his building like a deeply embedded cavernous space evoking a giant fragment of ancient pottery, resembling an archaeological site from the Neolithic Age discovered here a century ago. The building is so unusual that it cann