Makers
Engineer / Architect
Builders who directed palaces, cities, bridges, water control and other large works
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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.
Engineers and architects are people who directed building and engineering works, such as the designers and managers of palaces, city walls, bridges and water-control works, and in modern times engineers of railways, bridges, buildings and industry. Their achievement appears in building manuals, works records and surviving structures. They differ from master craftsmen in large works and technical systems rather than single crafted objects, and from inventors in directing construction rather than devising a single new device.
People in this role
- Lu BanDates unknown; late Spring and Autumn to early Warring States
- Ximen BaoDates unknown; magistrate of Ye under Marquis Wen of Wei
- Li BingDates unknown; Qin governor of Shu, late Warring States
- Zheng GuoDates unknown; hydraulic engineer from Han, late Warring States
- Shi LuDates unknown; built the Lingqu canal under the First Emperor
- Jia RangDates unknown; submitted his three-point river plan in response to the imperial call in 7 BCE
- Du ShiBirth unknown–38 CE
- Ma JunDates unknown; reign of Emperor Ming of Wei
- He Chouc. 547 CE–death unknown
- Yuwen Kai555 CE–612 CE
- Li ChunDates unknown; Sui-dynasty builder
- Yan Lidec. 600 CE–656 CE
- Yu HaoDates unknown; active in the late 10th century
- Li JieBirth unknown–1110 CE
- Liu Bingzhong1216 CE–1274 CE
- Ren Renfa1254 CE–1327 CE
- Bai Yingc. 1363 CE–c. 1419 CE
- Wu Zhong1373 CE–1442 CE
- Thangtong Gyalpoc. 1385 CE–c. 1464 CE (traditional dates)
- Kuai Xiang1398 CE–1481 CE
- Lei Fada1619 CE–1693 CE
- Jin Fu1633 CE–1692 CE
- Chen Huang1637 CE–1688 CE
- Lei Jinyu1659 CE–1729 CE
- Hua Hengfang1833 CE–1902 CE
No people in this role for that dynasty.