Wu Liangyong, Professor of Architecture, member of the Chinese Academies of Science and Engineering, was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, on May 7, 1922. He graduated in 1944 as a Bachelor of Architecture from the Department of Architecture, National Central University, Chongqing. He worked with Professor Liang Sicheng in founding the Department of Architecture at Tsinghua University after 1946, and engaged in teaching, researching and practicing in the fields of architecture, urban planning and designing. He took the seat of Deputy Director and later Director of the Department of Architecture, Vice President of the International Union of Architects, President of the World Society for the Science of Human Settlements, as well as the President of the Urban Planning Society of China, Vice President of the Architectural Society of China, Vice President of the China Society of Urban Studies. He led a team which carried out a study of buildings for the proposed Beijing Olympics and has also been awarded the First Award for Scientific and Technological Progress by the State Education Commission. Since 1987, he has been in charge of a research project, Beijing Ju'er Hutong new courtyard house, which has won several awards at the national level, a gold medal by the Asian Architects Regional Council Award for Architecture and a UN World Habitat Award. His book, A General Theory of Architecture, won the 1st prize for Scientific and Technological Research Progress from State Education Commission. He was promoted as a National Advanced Worker, won the He-Liang-He-Li Prize in 1995, and received the UIA Architectural Education Prize in 1996.