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Yang Tingbao
Yang Tingbao (1901–1982), an architect, led design at the firm Kwan, Chu and Yang (Jitai) and designed the main building of the Purple Mountain Observatory.
A stone arch bridge is being built across a river gorge, with wooden centering under the arch and bamboo scaffolding around the piers; many small workers haul stone blocks up a ramp with ropes and pulleys, and blocks and logs lie in the foreground below a distant city wall.
Also known as Renhui (courtesy name)
- Roles
- Engineer / Architect
Yang Tingbao, courtesy name Renhui, was born in Nanyang, Henan. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania from 1921 and took a master's degree. From 1927 he led architectural design at the firm Kwan, Chu and Yang (Jitai); in 1931 he designed the main building of the Purple Mountain Observatory and the Central Hospital in Nanjing, in 1932 the music stage at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, and from 1940 he was a professor of architecture at Central University, later teaching at the Nanjing Institute of Technology.
Life and times
Dates 1901–1982