100 years of Hong Kong architecture chronicles of early Chinese Architects in Hong Kong II
Citation
HKIA journal: the official journal of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects (香港建築師學報), no.41, 2005, pp. 42-51
Abstract
(1) Introduction
The second series of articles pays tributes to two of the most reputable Chinese architectural practices in Hong Kong. These two companies commenced their operations in China prior to the Second World War and were subsequently relocated to Hong Kong in the early 1950s. Besides being established architects that were responsible for a large number of both private and public commissions, Su Gin Djih, founder of Hsin Yieh Architects in Shanghai, and Chu Pin, founder of Kwan Chu Yang in Tianjing, were exceptionally active in the professional circle. Su Gin Djih was the founding President of the Hong Kong Society of Architects in 1956, who had also authored a book in the history of Chinese architecture. Chu Pin was a founding member of HKSA, while he had designed one of the best and most influential pieces of architecture in the 1950s, the Man Yee Building. Both firms were also among the most experienced ones in that period of time, and were considered as the earliest Chinese owned corporated parctices in Hong Kong and China.
(1) Leaders of the professionals
Kwan Chu Yang Architects Engineers (基泰工程司)
Kwan Sung Sing (關頌聲)
Chu Pin (朱彬)
Yang Tingbao (楊廷寶)
(2) The practitioner and the Historian
Su Gin Djih (徐敬直)
(3) References
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Date
2005
Language
en