Huang Zuoshen

Huang Zuoshen (Chinese: 黄作燊; pinyin: Huáng Zuòshēn; 1915 – 1975; also: Henry Huang; Henry Wong; Huang Zuoxin) was a pioneer of modern architecture in China.[1]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Huang.
Huang Zuo-shen
Born1915
Died1975 (aged 59–60)
Other namesHenry Huang; Henry Wong; Huang Zuoxin
OccupationArchitect
Known forMember of Five United
Chinese name
Chinese黄作燊

Huang attended the School of the Architectural Association in London from 1933 to 1937, and followed Walter Gropius in 1939 to the United States to study at Harvard University, instead of taking an offer from Le Corbusier of an internship in his studio.[2]

He returned to China in 1942, after being invited to found the Department of Architecture at St. John's University in Shanghai – where his teachings would be first in the country to follow the Bauhaus School.[3] He also helped establish a practice called Five United, which was a disparate group of Chinese architects who had mostly studied at British universities.[4] The others in the group were Wang Da-hong, Chen Chan-siang, Luke Him Sau and Arthur Kun-Shuan Cheang.

Huang emphasised Functionalism and Modernism in his teachings at St. John's University, and was later Director of the Department of Architecture at Tongji University from 1952 to 1954.[5][6]

References
  1. Peter G. Rowe; Seng Kuan (February 2004). Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China. MIT Press. pp. 89–. ISBN 978-0-262-68151-3.
  2. Hsiao, Leah; White, Michael (Fall–Winter 2015). "The Bauhaus and China: Present, Past, and Future". West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. 22 (2): 176–189. doi:10.1086/685869.
  3. Wang, H. [王浩娛]. (2008). Mainland architects in Hong Kong after 1949 : a bifurcated history of modern chinese architecture. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b4088793
  4. Anne Witchard (1 March 2015). British Modernism and Chinoiserie. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 264–. ISBN 978-0-7486-9097-8.
  5. "Henry Huang | Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion". Chineseamerican.nyhistory.org. 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2017-05-29.
  6. CAUP. "College of Architecture and Urban Planning Tongji University". En.tongji-caup.org. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
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