Guan Zhaoye | |||||||
Native Name: | 关肇邺 | ||||||
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Birth Date: | 4 October 1929 | ||||||
Birth Place: | Beijing, China | ||||||
Death Place: | Beijing, China | ||||||
Fields: | Architecture | ||||||
Workplaces: | Tsinghua University | ||||||
Alma Mater: | Yenching University Tsinghua University | ||||||
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Guan Zhaoye (; 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.
Guan was born in Beijing, on 4 October 1929, while his ancestral home is in Nanhai, Guangdong.[1] His father 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]