![]() ![]() However, she participated in architecture studios and took courses in design theory, drawing and architectural history and was a teaching assistant in architectural design, often outperforming her male peers. Because the architecture program did not admit female students until 1934, the fine arts degree was the only option available to her. One revelation of that research was that Lin, who enrolled in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program, also completed most of the coursework required for Bachelor of Architecture degree-the exceptions include a drawing course that was not open to female students because the live models included men. Visitors at the B uilding in China exhibition at the Penn Wharton China Center (on view through January 15, 2024)īuilding in China follows two decades of research by Weitzman faculty members and curators exploring the exchanges of modern architecture and urban culture between China and the West, with a focus on the relationship between China’s modern architecture and Penn. ![]() Collectively, these students went on to open the practices and schools of architecture that shaped the nation’s rapidly developing cities and towns for decades-earning the moniker “the first generation of modern Chinese architects.” As originally presented in Philadelphia in 2022, the exhibition examined not just the intercultural dialogues on modern architecture between China and the US over the past hundred years but also how these developments influenced a new generation of progressive contemporary firms practicing in China today. Building in China, co-curated by Lin Zhongjie, an associate professor of city and regional planning at Weitzman, along with Chinese architect Tong Ming, a professor at Southeast University and principal at Studio TM, and Chinese architecture scholar Li Xiangning, dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning and professor at Tongji University, celebrates the legacy and impact of the Chinese-born architecture students enrolled at Penn in the first half of the twentieth century. Like her peers, among them Liang Sicheng, the gifted Chinese student who would become her husband and longtime collaborator, Lin came to Penn in 1924 to study under Paul Philippe Cret, the renowned professor of design who led the school’s Beaux Arts-based architecture program. At the May 18, 2024, Weitzman Commencement Ceremony, the School will award Lin, arguably the first and most famous female architect in modern China, with a long overdue posthumous Bachelor of Architecture degree. She was also the only one in the group not awarded an architecture degree upon completion of her coursework. In the middle of the panel is Lin Huiyin, the only woman among the students. A series of black and white portraits accompanied by their degrees and years of study documents the first generation of Chinese students at Penn, who would go on to shape a new movement of architecture and urban design practice and education in their homeland. One of the highlights of the landmark Weitzman School of Design exhibition Building in China: A Century of Dialogues on Modern Architecture, now on view at the Penn Wharton China Center , is a 15-foot-long panel featuring 23 students in Penn’s architecture program between 19. ![]()
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