Architect, China Chinese architect Chen Zhi was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, in southeastern China. He had received a college edu-cation from Tsinghua School in Beijing before he was sent to the United States in 1923 to study architecture. He completed his Master of Architecture in 1928 at the University of Pennsylvania. During his student years, he won the Cope Prize Architectural Competition in 1926. In the summer of 1928, he went to New York to work for Ely J.Kahn for one year and then returned to China. Chen joined the architecture faculty at Northeastern University in 1929. The school was founded by another University of Pennsylvania graduate, Liang Sicheng, with whom Chen also cooperated for design practice. Their projects included the campus buildings of Encyclopedia of 20th-century architecture 452 Jilin University, Changchun City, China. However, Chen did not stay long; in late 1930 he departed for Shanghai. In Shanghai, Chen established his lifelong career in architec...