Wang Chiu-Hwa was a Taiwanese architect noted for her work with libraries in Taiwan.
14 Facts About Wang Chiu-Hwa
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Wang Chiu-Hwa's father was Wang Shijie, a scholar and politician who moved to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, her mother, Xiao Dehua, was a painter, and the musician Xiao Youmei was her maternal uncle.
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Wang Chiu-Hwa moved to Seattle to continue her studies at the University of Washington in 1946.
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Wang Chiu-Hwa then studied at Columbia University in New York City and obtained her Master's degree in architecture in 1949.
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Wang Chiu-Hwa was one of the first Asian women to study architecture at University of Washington and the Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
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From 1953 to 1979, Wang Chiu-Hwa worked with American architect Percival Goodman in New York City.
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Wang Chiu-Hwa began working for him part-time as a designer while being his student, and then worked for him full-time for almost thirty years, starting as an associate in 1960 and then becoming a partner.
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One of Wang Chiu-Hwa's nicknames was the "architect in a qipao" due to the fact she often wore one to construction sites.
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Wang Chiu-Hwa spoke out against the practice of prioritising private cars over public transport.
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Wang Chiu-Hwa began teaching at the Taipei Institute of Technology and Tamkang University, and served as architectural consultant to a number of public institutions.
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Wang Chiu-Hwa was named Outstanding Architect of Taiwan ROC in 2003.
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Wang Chiu-Hwa won the 2020 National Award for the Arts in architecture, and was the first woman recipient of the prize since an award for architecture was established in 1997.
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Wang Chiu-Hwa died of heart failure at Taipei City Renai Hospital at around 2 pm on 14 June 2021, less than two months before her 96th birthday.
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In 2015, Wang Chiu-Hwa donated a large part of her archive to the M+ Collection Archives in Hong Kong.