Guan Zhaoye ( Chinese: 关肇邺; 4 October 1929 – 26 December 2022) was a Chinese architect who was a professor at Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography

Guan was born in Beijing, on 4 October 1929, while his ancestral home is in Nanhai, Guangdong. ^[1] His father Guan Genglin [ zh] was a poet, scholar and industrialist. ^[1] His elder male cousin Guan Zhaozhi was a mathematician and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ^[2] He attended Beijing Yuying High School, a school run by the American Church. In 1947, he entered Yenching University, but transferred to Tsinghua University a year later. ^[1]

After graduating in 1952, Guan stayed and taught at Tsinghua University, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1978 and to full professor in 1984. ^[1] From 1981 to 1982, he was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ^[1]

On 26 December 2022, he died at Beijing Changgeng Hospital, at the age of 93. ^[3]

Buildings designed by Guan

• Dongsi Shitiao station of Beijing Metro ^[3]
• Tsinghua University Library ^[3]
• Buildings of School of Science, Tsinghua University ^[3]
• Building of Medical School of Tsinghua University ^[3]
• Taizhou Library ^[4]
• Peking University Library ^[3]
• Xuzhou Museum ^[3]
• Second Teaching Building of Hainan University ^[3]
• Xi'an Eurasian University Library ^[3]
• Decorative reliefs on the Monument to the People's Heroes ^[3]

Honours and awards

• 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
• 2000 Liang Sicheng Architecture Prize
• 2005 World Chinese Architects Association Architectural Design Award

References