Cheng Taining

Cheng Taining (Chinese: 程泰宁; born 9 December 1935) is a Chinese architect.[1] He is Director of the Design and Theoretical Research Center of Southeast University and Chief Architect of China United Engineering Corporation.[2][3]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Cheng.
Cheng Taining
Born9 Dec 1935
Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Alma materSoutheast University
OccupationArchitect
National Theatre of Ghana (1992)
Hangzhou railway station (1999)

Biography

Cheng was born 9 December 1935 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now part of Southeast University). In 1984 Cheng became director and chief architect of the Hangzhou Architectural Design Institute.[4] He won the Liang Sicheng Architecture Prize in 2004 and was elected a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2005.[2][3] His pieces were collected in 20th-Century World Architecture by International Union of Architects.

Cheng has designed more than 40 large-scale projects, including the National Theatre of Ghana,[5] the Hangzhou railway station,[1] National Assembly Building of Mali, Shaoxing Citizens' Square, Shaoxing Lu Xun Museum, and Haining Museum.[2]

References
  1. Xue, Charlie Q.L. (2005). Building A Revolution: Chinese Architecture Since 1980. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 109–113. ISBN 9789622097445.
  2. "中国工程院院士程泰宁教授". Southeast University. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
  3. "程泰宁". ysg.ckcest.cn. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
  4. Xue, Charlie Q.L.; Ding, Guanghui (2018). A History of Design Institutes in China: From Mao to Market. Routledge. pp. 97–99. ISBN 9781351356787.
  5. Banham, Martin; Gibbs, James Morel (2016). China, India and the Eastern World. Boydell & Brewer. p. 20. ISBN 9781847011466.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.