Liang Sicheng 梁思成

Details

Nationality

Chinese

Notes

Born in Tokyo to the reformer Liang Qichao; studied under Paul Cret at Pennsylvania (M.Arch. 1927). Joined the Society for Research in Chinese Architecture (1931); identified Foguang Si (857 CE) as China's then-oldest known timber-frame hall (June 1937). Author of A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture (written 1940s at Lizhuang, published MIT Press 1984) and the Annotated Yingzao Fashi. Founded the discipline of Chinese architectural history.

Connections

• authored Annotated Yingzao Fashi (Yingzao Fashi Zhushi 營造法式註釋)
• authored A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture
• associated with Society for Research in Chinese Architecture (Zhongguo Yingzao Xueshe 中國營造學社)
• collaborated with Lin Huiyin 林徽因
• collaborated with Liu Dunzhen 劉敦楨
• developed Yingzao Fashi Building Standards

Referenced by

• Li Jie 李誡 influenced
• Paul Philippe Cret mentored

Sources

1. Liang Sicheng. A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture. MIT Press, 1984.