100th Birth Anniversary of Famous ArchitectA ceremony marking the 100th birth anniversary of Tong Jun, a famous architect and educator, was held Friday on the campus of Southeast University in east China's Nanjing City.Tong Jun (1900-1983) was a leading Chinese architect who took part in more than 200 architecture design projects and published 12 academic works and 50 papers. Tong, who was born in northeast China, went to the University of Pennsylvania to study architecture in 1925 and returned to China in 1930. Since 1940s, Tong started his teaching in the Southeast University and educated a large number of architecture professionals in China. Hundreds of architects and students and teachers from Southeast University today attended the ceremony and an exhibition on Tong's life and architectural achievements. |
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