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Xiu Zelan | |
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| Born | August 15, 1925 |
| Died | February 27, 2016 (aged 90–91) |
Xiu Zelan (Chinese: 修澤蘭; 15 August 1925 – 27 February 2016), also written as Hsiu Tse-Lan,[1] was a Taiwanese architect. Xue was born in Yuanling, Hunan. During World War II, she attended the Architecture Department of National Central University in Chongqing (Now Southeast University School of Architecture). In 1947 she entered the Taiwan Rail Bureau.[2] She took charge of the Department of General Logistics and Engineering as an assistant engineer. Her modernist interpretations of traditional motifs gained the attention of Chiang Kai-shek, and in 1965 she took charge of Yangmingshan's Chung-Shan Building project.[3] Designed to house state ceremonies, the Chung-Shan Building brought Xiu acclaim and the project was subsequently considered to be one of her crowning achievements and earned the popular title "Number 1 Female Architect of Taiwan".[4] Subsequently, on April 30, 1967, Xiu was awarded the first Golden Tripod Award for Architecture (alongside fellow architects including Wang Da-hong, Chen Chi-Kwan, Chen Ren-he, Haigo T. H. Shen, and Yang Cho-cheng).[5] In 2015, on the 50th anniversary of the Chung-Shan Building's completion, she was presented with a certificate of gratitude from the Taiwanese government.[4]
- ^ Ho Shu-i (2016). "Hsiu Tse-lan". In Lee, Lily Xiao Hong (ed.). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: v. 2: Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-315-49924-6.
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- ^ a b Is It Brutalism or Critical Regionalism in Taiwan? On the Dissemination of Architectural Discourse and the Re-imagination of Works of Architect Xiu, Zelan
- ^ "台視影音文化資產 - 台視新聞". 台視 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 2020-11-16.