Research Of Kwan, Chu And Yang Architects & Engineers In Tianjin And Northern China

Kwan, Chu and Yang Architects & Engineers of Tianjin was founded by Mr. Kwan Sungsheng . It is the earliest and the biggest private Historic Building Architect in north of China and also one of the most important office in the modern history for Chinese architecture. During that period in china, Chinese people could hardly set up such kind of design office. However Kwan, Chu and Yang Architects & Engineers of Tianjin was set up and grown very fast under the pressures of many foreign offices. It kept the business during the chaos period caused by war, which made great contribution to the development of Chinese architecture in modern history and the training of architects.In 1941, Kwan, Chu and Yang Architects & Engineers of Tianjin and its office of Beijing were amalgamated to Kwan, Chu and Yang Architects & Engineers of Northern China. By the outstanding manage of Mr. Zhangbo, It completed a lot of projects, and made an important contribution to capital construction of Northern China and the architects of it composed the main power of architects in Northern China after liberation.This paper focused on the background of Kwan, Chu and Yang Architects t& Engineers in Tianjin and Northern China, including the settlement, operation mode, services, organization, salary system, and so on. This paper also makes a collection of the finished projects, and analyzed the design features of Kwan, Chu and Yang Architects & Engineers through these projects. After compared Kwan, Chu and Yang Architects & Engineers with other offices in the same period and summarized Kwan, Chu and Yang Architects & Engineers' influences, keys which made it such successful and compared Kwan, Chu and Yang Architects & Engineers with offices nowadays, this paper can provide information of operation for today's architecture offices and design institutes.