BUILDING UP

Thomas Jay Pritzker of the Hyatt business empire asks students of a Chinese icon of higher education to be curious, Deng Zhangyu reports.

Thomas Jay Pritzker, chairman of the Hyatt Foundation, which established the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1979, started his collaboration with Tsinghua University in 2011 on a program to enable students to learn from the world's leading architects. The program was launched to cultivate Chinese architects.

Wang Shu, the founder of Hangzhou-based Amateur Architecture Studio, won the field's top honor in 2012, becoming the first Chinese to get the Pritzker Prize.