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.

Contents

1 Biography

2 Buildings designed by Guan

3 Honours and awards

4 References

Biography

Guan was born in Beijing, on 4 October 1929, while his ancestral home 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

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