Liangyong Wu

Background

Liangyong Wu was born on May 7, 1922 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Education

In 1944 Liangyong Wu obtained a bachelor's degree in architecture at the National Central University (Nanjing University) in Chongqing, and a master's degree at the American Guangxi Art Academy. He also studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the United States.

Career

Together with professor Liang Sicheng he founded the Faculty of Architecture on the Tsinghua University in 1946, where he focused on urban planning, architecture and design. All together he taught fifty years at Tsinghua University.

Next to his professorate, Liangyong Wu carried out different administrative functions. He was vice-president of the International Union of Architects and of the Architecture Society of China. Furthermore, he was chairman of the World Society for the Science of Human Settlements and of the Urban Planning Society of China.

His development of the Ju'er Hutong in Beijing is seen as state of the art. Furthermore, Liangyong Wu developed the new library of Beijing and the enlargement of Tiananmen Square, and redeveloped Guilin and the Central Art and Design Academy of the Confucius Institute.

Achievements

• In preparation to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Liangyong Wu was leading the team that studied the buildings of the games He is considered the most influential architect and urban planner in China.
  
  Liangyong Wu received a number of awards. He was the first to win the Award for Scientific and Technological Progress by the State Education Commission. In 1993 won he won a World Habitat Award of the United Nations for his contribution to the house-building project of Ju'er Hutong in Beijing. In 1995 Liangyong Wu won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize and in 1996 the UIA Architectural Education Prize of the International Union of Architects. Wu was honored with a Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands in 2002. The jury praised his architectonic work, as well as his compilation of a ten-volume encyclopedia of regional architectures around the world.

Works

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  • The Second Report on the Rural and Urban Spatial Development Planning Study for the Capital Region 1991
  • Rehabilitating the Old City of Beijing: A Project in the Ju'Er Hutong Neighbourhood 1999

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  • The Science of Human Settlements in China

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Membership

• Architectural Society of China

• Urban Planning Society of China

• International Union of Architects

• Chinese Academy of Engineering

• Chinese Academy of Sciences

Connections

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Liang Sicheng

Liang Sicheng (20 April 1901- 9 January 1972) was a Chinese architect and architectural historian, known as the father of modern Chinese architecture.