演员江一燕获美国建筑大师奖，网友：？？？| Actress winning award sparks...

Actress Jiang Yiyan aroused heated debate on Sina Weibo as news came out that she was awarded an Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) at a ceremony in Spain a few days ago.

Some raised doubts about the veracity of the news, saying that she was awarded the prize in 2018 rather than this year and that such a prize is not the most significant globally in the architectural field.

Jiang indeed received notification of the award in 2018, but the organizer didn't hold an award ceremony until 2019 and both the 2018 and 2019 AMP winners were invited to attend.

Perhaps more controversial is the fact that Jiang is not the lead architect but member of the winning design team. In other words, she is the first party and owner of the building.

Jiang said in a video on the official website of Garbers & James Architectural Studio that in six years she met with five architects, and German architect Thore Garbers had a similar concept to hers.

The building, LJ VILLA, won the prize in architectural design/residential architecture with the lead architect Thore Garbers. Jiang was included in the design team.

The building (later renamed as LOVE JYY VILLA) won the prize for being 'quite simply a world apart; a world of nature of its own' and because it 'maximizes volumes of space that often flow into one another', according to the award's website.

Despite Jiang defending herself by stressing her dedication to architecture for several years, most netizens simply aren't buying it.

She also expressed her dissatisfaction with the online criticism, which she thought was unfair and simply an outlet for jealousy.

Irritated by her remarks, many Sina Weibo users posted comments under Jiang's account. Some said she should spend more time and energy as an actress instead of stepping into other fields. Others complained she got the award too easily.

Many students majoring in architecture said they felt humiliated and angry because they have spent days and nights on their studies but couldn't get the quick success Jiang did.

Born in 1983 in Shaoxing, East China's Zhejiang province, Jiang graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and became renowned among Chinese audiences after she took a leading role in 24-episode TV series We Have Nowhere to Place Youth, broadcasted in 2007.