Xia Changshi

Xia Changshi ( 夏昌世 , Xià Chāngshì ; * 1903 in Guangdong , Chinese Empire ; † December 4, 1996 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a Chinese architect. He designed numerous large buildings, especially universities and hospitals. His concern was to combine the local Chinese architecture with modern European architecture. He was thus the founder of Lingnan architecture . The basis for this was his training at the TH Karlsruhe and at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

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Xia Changshi was born in May 1903 in Guangdong into an artisan family of overseas Chinese. At a young age he went to Germany to study.

• In 1928 he finished his engineering studies at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and obtained the qualification as an engineer (university degree).
• In 1932 he received his doctorate at the Art History Institute of the Charles University in Tübingen.
• After his return to China, he worked as an engineer in the Ministry of Railways and Transport from 1932 to 1939.
• 1940–1941 professor at Tongji University
• 1942–1945 professor at the Central University and at Chongqing University.
• 1946–1952 professor at Zhongshan University (more often: Sun Yat-sen University (Guangdong) ).
• 1952 Professor at the Technical University of South China ( 华南 工学院 , Huánán gōngxuéyuàn ), in Guangzhou. Official English name: South China University of Technology.

The period 1952–1973 is omitted in BaikeBaidu. The addition can be found in a German-language short biography by Eduard Koegel:

Xia Changshi was not a member of the CCP. The construction contracts were therefore withdrawn from him. He then turned to research into garden design. He was a co-founder of the Guangdong Society of Gardening. In 1966, during the Cultural Revolution, he was taken to a labor camp for "re-education" and in November 1968 he was sent to prison on charges of espionage, as was his wife, Ottilie Hsia-Bretschger. In 1972 both were released in connection with preparations for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the PRC and the Federal Republic of Germany. Xia Changshi was considered a German citizen.

• 1973 in August he moved to Freiburg in Germany
• He was also director of the Board of Directors Second and Third Conference of the Chinese Study Society for Engineering ( 中国 建筑 学会 , Zhōngguó jiànzhù xuéhuì ) and also chairman of the executive branch of the Guangdong Study Society for Horticulture ( 广东 园林 学会 , Guǎngdōng yuánlínxuéhuì ) a nonprofit organization of the Horticultural engaged technicians and art workers based in Guangzhou.
• In 1982 he returned to China and lived in Hong Kong as a Chinese overseas.

Before and after that he came to Guangzhou to advise on the construction of the Chinese Abroad Hospital at Jinan University ( 暨南 大学 , Jìnán dàxué ) and to take part in the engineering work.

Xia Changshi died of an illness on December 4, 1996 in Freiburg, Germany.

Essential planning work

The old No. 13 building of Huanan University

• The library of the Huanan University of Engineering ( 华南 工学院 图书馆 , Huánán gōngxuéyuàn túshūguǎn ) (2015 ( 华南 理工 大学 图书馆 , Huánán lǐ-gǒng dàxue túshūguǎn ) as the main library of the Southchina University of Technology) in Guangzhou.

as well as the administration building; in addition the planning for the teaching building and the campus.

• The building for the aquarium in the Public Culture Park in Guangzhou ( 广州 文化 公园 , Guǎngzhōu wénhuà gōngyuán )
• The large hospital at Zhongshan University of Medicine and the complex of teaching buildings and laboratories.
• The Zhanjiang Sailing Club ( 湛江 , Zhànjiāng ), Leizhou Bay Harbor, Guangdong.
• The building for the experts of the research institute Subtropical Zone Asia in Hainan ( 海南 亚热带 研究所 , Hǎinán yàrèdài yánjiūsuǒ )
• The planning for three new university buildings to be built in Wǔhàn
• The Dinghushan Faculty and Administration Hospital ( 鼎湖山 , Dǐnghú Shān )
• Sketching and planning of landscape areas in Guilin ( 桂林 风景区 , Guìlín fēngjǐngqū )
• Planning the Guangxi Hospital.

Award

In 1993, Xia Zhangshi received the Zhongshan Medical University Faculty Building Complex for Excellent Construction at the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Proclamation of the Chinese Architectural Society. ( 中国 建筑 学会 , Zhōngguó jiànzhù xuéhuì The Architectural Society of China)

Publications

• Ground plan of the garden design ( 园林 述 要 , yuánlín shùyào )

Numerous articles about the architecture of the subtropical climatic zone of Asia, about Chinese gardens and about the flower gardens in the Lingnan region in:

• Journal of Architecture ( 建筑 学报 , Jiànzhùxuébào )
• Journal of Garden Architecture ( 园林 学报 , Yuánlín xuébào )
• Theory and practice of architecture ( 建筑 理论 与 实践 , Jiànzhù lǐlùn yǔ shíxiàn )

literature

建筑 家 夏昌世; 作 者 ： 谈 健 ， 谈 晓玲 著; 出版社 ： 华南 理工 大学 出版社; 出版 时间 ： November 1, 2012

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1. ^ South China Technical University . Academic ranking of world universities. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
2. ↑ Hsia Changshi on the 100th (103rd) birthday . Kitty Schaertlin. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
3. ↑ South China University of Technology Library . 中国 广州 · 华南 理工 大学 图书馆 技术 部. Archived from the original on December 23, 2015. Retrieved December 18, 2015.
4. ↑ 湛江 (Zhanjiang) . baike.haosou.com. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
5. ↑ 建筑 家 夏昌世 . 华南 理工 大学 出版社. Retrieved December 20, 2015.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Xia is the family name here, Changshi is the first name.