'Made in China or made in the USA? Architectural Development in China 1927–77,' Nov. 12

Wednesday, Nov. 12, 7-9 p.m. UAA/APU Consortium Library, Room 307

In the 1920s, a group of Chinese students made the long journey to the U.S. to study architecture. Upon their return to China, they became pioneers of a new profession and set out to define the forms of cities and buildings. The architectural styles and educational system closely followed (or was strongly influenced by) what they learned in the U.S. Join Yunsheng Huang for a discussion on this period of Chinese architecture.

About the speaker: Yunsheng Huang, Ph.D., teaches architectural history at the University of Virginia, School of Architecture. He completed his bachelor's degree in architecture at Tsinghua University, his master's in architectural history at the Academy of Science in Beijing, and his Ph.D. in European architecture at Princeton. Huang has a wealth of experience working and teaching in these fields. He established and has led a summer architecture program to China for the past twenty years, and is involved in many other interesting scholarly activities. His most recently published book is Classical Orders in Architecture. He has traveled extensively throughout Asia doing research.

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