Guan Zhaoye


Guan Zhaoye 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 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

Honours and awards