Xiaowei Luo (罗小未)

Architect and professor

 

Kaining Jin

Name:

Xiaowei Luo

Country:

China

Awards:

Honorary Senior Member of the American Institute of Architects, 1998, USA

China Architecture Society Special Award for Architectural Education, 2006, China

Education:

St. John’s University, Shanghai, China

Memberships:

Sixth and seventh President of Shanghai Architecture Society (1984-1996)

Honorary Chairman of the Shanghai Architectural Society

Member of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Councils of the Chinese Academy of Architecture

Member of the Architectural Review Committee of the International Association of Architects

Editor-in-chief of Architecture of the Times magazine (1985-2001)

Consultant of Tongji University Architectural Design Institut

Consultant of the international magazine Space and Society, Italy

Short Biography

Xiaowei Luo was a lecturer, associate professor and full-time professor at Tongji University in the Department of Architecture. Her research and teaching focus was on foreign architecture, especially on the modern western architecture like the Bauhaus movement. She was one of the first ones who introduced these architectural theories in China by teaching classes on the history of modern foreign architecture and publishing a book on this topic.

Work

Although Xiaowei Luo never accomplished independent design projects, she made great contributions to the field of architecture theory, by introducing modern western architecture to the Chinese architectural education.

  • Luo, Xiaowei. Introduction to the History of Western Architecture. Shanghai: Tongji University Press, 1954.
  • Luo, Xiaowei. History of Modern Foreign Architecture. Beijing: China Construction Industry Press, 2004.
  • Luo, Xiaowei. The history of foreign architecture illustrated: ancient eighteenth century. Shanghai: Tongji University Press, 2005.

Bibliography

https://transformingthetimeline.com/Xiaowei-Luo (last accessed on 10 Mar. 2022)

95-year-old architect Luo, Xiaowei, a “goddess” of Tongji’s architecture department, passed away. [online] Available at: https://www.sohu.com/a/400449860_260616 (last accessed on 28 Feb. 2022)