Wu Liangyong

He is considered the most influential architect and urban planner in China.

Wu Liangyong studied at Nanjing University, National Central University and Southeast University. The recorded working language is Chinese. Employment is recorded with Tsinghua University. Distinctions recorded are State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, Prince Claus Award and Pioneer of Reform.

• Name — Wu Liangyong • Native Name — 吴良镛 • Born — 7 May 1922 • Birthplace — Jiangning County, Jiangsu, Republic of China • Fields — Architecture • Workplaces — Tsinghua University • Alma Mater — National Central University Cranbrook Educational Community • Awards — Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1999) Prince Claus Award (2002) Highest Science and Technology Award (2012) • Doctoral Advisor — Eero Saarinen • Academic Advisors — Liang Sicheng Wu Liangyong (born 7 May 1922) is a Chinese architect and urban planner. He was a former professor in urban planning, architecture, and design. In preparation to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he was leading the team that studied the buildings of the games. He is considered the most influential architect and urban planner in China.

Wu was born in Nanjing on 7 May 1922. In 1944, he obtained a bachelor's degree in architecture at the National Central University (now Nanjing University) in Chongqing, and a master's degree at the American Guangxi Art Academy. He also studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the United States. Together with professor Liang Sicheng, he founded the Faculty of Architecture on the Tsinghua University in 1946, where he focused on urban planning, architecture, and design. All together he taught fifty years at Tsinghua University. Next to his professorate, Wu carried out different administrative functions. He was vice-president of the International Union of Architects and of the Architecture Society of China. Furthermore, he was chairman of the World Society for the Science of Human Settlements and of the Urban Planning Society of China. His development of the Ju'er Hutong in Beijing is seen as state of the art. Furthermore, he developed the new library of Beijing and the enlargement of Tiananmen Square, and redeveloped Guilin and the Central Art and Design Academy of the Confucius Institute. In preparation to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Wu was leading the team that studied the buildings of the games. Wu received a number of awards. He was the first to win the Award for Scientific and Technological Progress by the State Education Commission. In 1993, he won a World Habitat Award of the United Nations for his contribution to the house-building project of Ju'er Hutong in Beijing. In 1995, he won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize and in 1996 the UIA Architectural Education Prize of the International Union of Architects. Wu was honored with a Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands in 2002. The jury praised his architectonic work, as well as his compilation of a ten-volume encyclopedia of regional architectures around the world. Wu turned 100 in May 2022.

Wu Liangyong is recorded as having received State Preeminent Science and Technology Award, Prince Claus Award and Pioneer of Reform.