Architect Lin Huiyin

Author: School of Architecture, Tsinghua University
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This book collects important design works, unpublished articles, manuscripts, and watercolor paintings of Lin Huiyin, as well as remembrance essays by her children, Liang Zaibing and Liang Congjie, and by colleagues and students of Lin Huiyin. The book also includes nearly 200 images, many of which have never been published, making it highly valuable for collection and historical research. The book is divided into five parts. Part 1 collects three articles by Lin Huiyin and images of her reference works for the national emblem and applied art design. Part 2 includes commemorative and reflective essays by Lin Huiyin’s children, Liang Zaibing and Liang Congjie, on their mother, along with photographs of Lin Huiyin from various stages of her life, some of which have never been published before. Part 3 features several articles: first, Professor Wu Liangyong’s commemorative essay Lin Huiyin’s Last Ten Years, in which Professor Wu Liangyong, one of the founding faculty members of the Tsinghua University Architecture Department in the fall of 1946, assisted Lin Huiyin in managing the department’s teaching and administrative work during the period when Liang Sicheng went to the United States; second, Professor Qin Youguo’s essay Lin Huiyin and the Design of the National Emblem, which discusses Lin Huiyin’s historical contributions to the national emblem design with detailed archival materials; and essays by Mr. Chang Shana, Mr. Qian Meihua, and others, which can be read in comparison with those in Part 1. Parts 4 and 5 include remembrance and commemorative essays by Lin Huiyin’s colleagues, such as Mr. Zheng Xiaoxie and Mr. Luo Zhewen, as well as her students, reflecting on her academic achievements, scholarly spirit, talent, temperament, and appearance. Accompanying the essays, photographs of Lin Huiyin engaged in research on Chinese architectural history and teaching at the Tsinghua University Architecture Department are also included. Additionally, Professor Lan Dizhi of the School of Humanities at Tsinghua University has been invited to write a special essay on Lin Huiyin’s poetry and her literary accomplishments.