Cheng Taining
{{Short description|Chinese architect}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1935|12|9}}
| birth_place = Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
| alma_mater = Southeast University
| occupation = Architect
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Cheng Taining ({{zh|s=程泰宁}}; born 9 December 1935) is a Chinese architect.{{cite book |last=Xue |first=Charlie Q.L. |year=2005 |title=Building A Revolution: Chinese Architecture Since 1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Clb3QCHszHUC&pg=PA109 |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |pages=109–113 |isbn=9789622097445}} He is Director of the Design and Theoretical Research Center of Southeast University and Chief Architect of {{ill|China United Engineering Corporation|zh|中國聯合工程公司}}.{{Cite web|url=http://zsb.seu.edu.cn/2008/1128/c4932a45024/page.htm|title=中国工程院院士程泰宁教授|publisher=Southeast University |access-date=2019-02-02}}{{Cite web|url=http://ysg.ckcest.cn/html/details/1603/baseInfo/grxx_jbxx/default.html|title=程泰宁|website=ysg.ckcest.cn|access-date=2019-02-02}}
Biography
Cheng was born 9 December 1935 in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now part of Southeast University). In 1984 Cheng became director and chief architect of the Hangzhou Architectural Design Institute.{{cite book |last1=Xue |first1=Charlie Q.L. |last2=Ding |first2=Guanghui |year=2018 |title=A History of Design Institutes in China: From Mao to Market |publisher=Routledge |pages=97–99 |isbn=9781351356787}} He won the Liang Sicheng Architecture Prize in 2004 and was elected a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2005. His pieces were collected in 20th-Century World Architecture by International Union of Architects.
Cheng has designed more than 40 large-scale projects, including the National Theatre of Ghana,{{cite book |last1=Banham |first1=Martin |last2=Gibbs |first2=James Morel |year=2016 |title=China, India and the Eastern World |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |page=20 |isbn=9781847011466}} the Hangzhou railway station, National Assembly Building of Mali, Shaoxing Citizens' Square, Shaoxing Lu Xun Museum, and Haining Museum.
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Category:Educators from Nanjing
Category:Southeast University alumni
Category:Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering