Guan Zhaoye

In this Chinese name, the family name is Guan.

Guan Zhaoye
关肇邺
Born	(1929-10-04)4 October 1929 Beijing, China
Died	26 December 2022(2022-12-26) (aged 93) Beijing, China
Alma mater	Yenching University Tsinghua University
Scientific career
Fields	Architecture
Institutions	Tsinghua University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	关肇はじめ邺
Traditional Chinese	關せき肇はじめ鄴
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guān Zhàoyè

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. His father Guan Genglin was a poet, scholar and industrialist. His elder male cousin Guan Zhaozhi was a mathematician and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 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.

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. From 1981 to 1982, he was a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Buildings designed by Guan

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

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