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Beijing Developers Demolish Home of China’s “Father of Modern Architecture”

February 10, 2012

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In 1931, after earning his master’s degree in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Liang Sicheng returned to China where he joined a newly formed Beijing organization called the Institute for Research in Chinese Architecture.  For seven years he and his wife Lin Huiyin, one of China’s first female architects, lived in the courtyard house located at 24 Beizongbu Hutong, where together they completed their groundbreaking book, History of Chinese Architecture.

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“Fate of Old Beijing” Chronicles Destruction of Ancient Hutongs

June 09, 2011

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Since Beijing’s earliest days, its narrow lanes and alleys known as hutongs have been an intricate part of the city’s identity. Once made up almost entirely of these culturally-significant areas, Beijing today is rapidly modernizing, and the old quarters are becoming increasingly threatened by both economic and social forces.

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