Liang Sicheng

Architect

1901 – 1972

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Who was Liang Sicheng?

Liang Sicheng was the son of Liang Qichao, a well-known Chinese thinker in the late Qing Dynasty. Liang Sicheng returned to China from the United States after studying at the University of Pennsylvania. His wife was Chinese architect and poet Lin Huiyin, who is an aunt of the Chinese American architect and artist Maya Lin.

Liang is the author of China's first modern history on Chinese architecture and founder of the Architecture Department of Northeast University in 1928 and Tsinghua University in 1946. He was the Chinese representative in the Design Board which designed the United Nations headquarters in New York. He, along with Lin Huiyin, Mo Zongjiang, and Ji Yutang, discovered and analyzed the first and second oldest timber structures still standing in China, located at Nanchan Temple and Foguang Temple at Mount Wutai.

He is recognized as the “Father of Modern Chinese Architecture”. To cite Princeton University, which awarded him an honorary doctoral degree in 1947, he was “a creative architect who has also been a teacher of architectural history, a pioneer in historical research and exploration in Chinese architecture and planning, and a leader in the restoration and preservation of the priceless monuments of his country.”

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Born
Apr 20, 1901
Tokyo
Also known as
  • Sicheng Liang
Parents
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • Japan
Profession
Education
  • Tsinghua University
  • University of Pennsylvania
Lived in
  • Xinhui District
Died
Jan 9, 1972
Beijing

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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