Ho Chen Tsu
{{Short description|Taiwan architect}}
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Ho Chen Tsu（賀陳詞）(1918-1994), born in Hengyang, Hunan Province, is one of the first generation of architects and important architecture educators in post-war Taiwan.{{Cite book |last=國立成功大學建築學系 |title=成果報告書 |publisher=國立臺灣博物館 |year=2019}}
Profile
Ho Chen Tsu is a native of Hengyang County, Hunan Province. He was enrolled into the Foreign Languages Department, Amoy University in 1940. He transferred to the Foreign Languages Department, Sun Yat-sen University in 1941 and transferred to the Architecture and Engineering Department in 1942. After graduating from the university, he worked in the Changsha Municipal Government, and later served as an engineering officer in the 10th Supply Brigade of the Air Force.{{Cite web |last=左 |first=利時 |title=賀陳詞教授傳略 |url=https://docomomo.ntm.gov.tw/collection.aspx?GID=MAMIMCMA |website=國立臺灣博物館二戰後臺灣現代建築圖說資料庫管理系統 |access-date=July 20, 2023 |archive-date=March 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230308070520/https://docomomo.ntm.gov.tw/collection.aspx?GID=MAMIMCMA |url-status=live }} He came to Taiwan with the Air Force in 1948. In 1955, he taught at Taiwan Provincial Institute of Technology (now National Cheng Kung University). In 1967, he had a study tour in the United Kingdom and the United States for nearly one year when he studied the history of modern European architecture and the education of university architecture departments in both countries.{{Cite journal |last=孫 |first=全文 |date=August 1994 |title=賀陳詞教授的建築教育觀 紀念台灣的建築教育家 |journal=建築師雜誌 |volume=236 |pages=110–113}} After retiring in 1979, he taught at Tunghai University. He died in 1994.{{Cite web |last=徐 |first=明松 |date=January 18, 2018 |title=張哲夫─建築做為一種社會責任 |url=https://www.xinmedia.com/article/143763 |access-date=July 20, 2023 |website=欣傳媒 |archive-date=September 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902020050/https://www.xinmedia.com/article/143763 |url-status=live }}
Architectural style
Mr. Ho Chen received the architectural education of Beaux-Arts at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou,{{Cite journal |last=關 |first=華山 |date=August 1994 |title=一位中國「現代」的建築紳士 |journal=建築師雜誌 |volume=236 |pages=107–109}} and later he developed a keen interest in modernist architecture and formed his unique viewpoints. Beaux-Arts, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and traditional Chinese architecture had significant influence on the style of his works, which have integrated the regional features of Taiwan. His eclectic architectural style is as simple and clear as modern architecture. Meanwhile, the solemnity and simplicity of traditional architecture have remained.{{Cite journal |last=趙 |first=文紳 |date=1997 |title=現代折衷—賀陳詞之建築造型研究 |journal=國立成功大學建築(工程)學系碩士論文}}
Important architectural works
Changrong Road Evangelical Lutheran Church, Tainan (1955){{Cite web |last=ARTOUCH編輯部 |date=May 28, 2021 |title=臺南公共建設的自然生態與歷史對話考驗 |url=https://artouch.com/art-views/content-40898.html |access-date=July 20, 2023 |website=典藏 ARTouch |archive-date=August 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810170019/https://artouch.com/art-views/content-40898.html |url-status=live }}
Memorial Gate of National Cheng Kung University (1956)
The Third Dining Hall of National Cheng Kung University (1958){{Cite web |last=傅 |first=朝卿 |date=November 2011 |title=1950年代臺灣最摩登的學生餐廳－臺灣省立工學院第三餐廳 |url=http://ir.lib.ncku.edu.tw/bitstream/987654321/117003/1/235-6.pdf |url-status=bot: unknown |access-date=July 20, 2023 |website=國立成功大學校刊 |archive-date=December 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221174709/http://ir.lib.ncku.edu.tw/bitstream/987654321/117003/1/235-6.pdf }}
National Cheng Kung University Overseas Chinese Students' Dormitory (1958){{Cite book |last1=王 |first1=俊雄 |title=粗獷與詩意：台灣戰後第一代建築 |last2=徐 |first2=明松 |publisher=木馬文化 |year=2017 |isbn=9789863594673 |edition=1st |location=新北市}}
Pius Seminary in Tainan (1960)
Tainan Radio the Voice of Victory (1962)
Reconstruction of King of Yanping Memorial Temple, Tainan (1964)
King of Yanping Memorial Temple, Jheng Cheng-gong Memorial Hall, Tainan (1964)
Renovation of Chihkan Tower in Tainan (1965)
Catholic Bao Ren Elementary School and Kindergarten (1966)
Sightseeing Center of Zengwen Dam Administration (1975)
NCYU Teachers College Student Activity Center (1975)
National Sun Yat-sen University Campus Planning Project (1980)