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Jun 10, 1904 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China Died on 01 Apr 1955 (aged 50)
Chinese architect and writer
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About Lin Huiyin
- Lin Huiyin (Chinese: ???, born ???; pinyin: Lín Huiyin; known as Phyllis Lin or Lin Whei-yin when in the United States; 10 June 1904 – 1 April 1955) was a Chinese architect and architectural historian.
- She is known to be the first female architect in modern China and her husband the famed "Father of Modern Chinese Architecture" Liang Sicheng, both of whom worked as founders and faculty in the newly formed Architecture Department of Northeastern University in 1928 and, after 1949, as professors in Tsinghua University in Beijing.
- Liang and Lin began restoration work on cultural heritage sites of China in the post-imperial Republican Era of China; a passion which she would pursue to the end of her life.
- The American artist Maya Lin is her niece.
