Wu Liangyong

Wu Liangyong (Chinese: 吴良镛, born May 7, 1922) is a Chinese urban planner and a former professor in urban planning, architecture and design. In preparation to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he was leading the team that studied the buildings of the games. He is considered the most influential architect and urban planner in China.

Wu was born in Nanjing on May 7, 1922. In 1944 he obtained a bachelor's degree in architecture at the National Central University (Nanjing University) in Chongqing, and a master's degree at the American Guangxi Art Academy. He also studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the United States. Together with professor Liang Sicheng he founded the Faculty of Architecture on the Tsinghua University in 1946, where he focused on urban planning, architecture and design. All together he taught fifty years at Tsinghua University.

Next to his professorate, Wu carried out different administrative functions. He was vice-president of the International Union of Architects and of the Architecture Society of China. Furthermore, he was chairman of the World Society for the Science of Human Settlements and of the Urban Planning Society of China.

His development of the Ju'er Hutong in Beijing is seen as state of the art. Furthermore, he developed the new library of Beijing and the enlargement of Tiananmen Square, and redeveloped Guilin and the Central Art and Design Academy of the Confucius Institute. In preparation to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Wu was leading the team that studied the buildings of the games.

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