Liu Jiakun (born 1956) is a Chinese architect based in his home city of Chengdu, known for work rooted in local context and materials, and the winner of the 2025 Pritzker Prize. He was sent to the countryside as a labourer at 17 during the Cultural Revolution and graduated in architecture from the Chongqing Institute of Architecture and Engineering in 1982. He returned to architecture in 1993 after time in Tibet and Xinjiang and founded Jiakun Architects in 1999. After the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake he began making "rebirth bricks" from its rubble. The Pritzker jury wrote that he creates architecture "at once a historical record, a piece of infrastructure, a landscape and a remarkable public space."
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The Hu Huishan Memorial in Chengdu (2009) honours a 15-year-old girl killed in the earthquake: shaped like the relief tents put up after the disaster but built in plaster, its pink interior holds her backpack and belongings. West Village (Basis Yard) in Chengdu (2015) wraps a city block in a five-storey building that turns from offices and shops into open ramps for walkers and cyclists, around a large inner courtyard with sports pitches.
