
During his college years at Chongqing University, the Japanese bombed the city repeatedly, as it was the seat of the Nationalist government during the second Sino-Japanese War. By the time he graduated from high school in 1935, the new Chinese nation had already gone through several attempts at national governance. Chang was born just five years after the fall of the last imperial dynasty, the Qing, in 1911. The formative years of Amos Ih Tiao Chang’s life (1916–1998) were tumultuous ones for China. It is a pleasure now to write this foreword to Amos Chang’s book upon its re-release, and to revisit that question I asked long ago. The Tao ¹ of Architecture was one of the first books that stirred a nascent question in me: How does philosophy relate to architecture? How indeed! That was well over thirty years ago.

Princeton Classic Edition paperback ISBN: 978-1-3ġ0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 FOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION Library of Congress Control Number: 2016960851 In the United Kingdom: Princeton Univeristy Press,Ħ Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TRįormerly titled The Existence of Intangible Content in Architectonic Form Based upon the Practicality of Laotzu’s Philosophyįirst Princeton Classics Edition, with a foreword by David Wang, 2017 Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Professor, Kansas State University, 1974-1987 Īmos Ih-Tiao Chang has been listed as a notable architecture educator by Marquis Who's Who.Copyright © 1956 Princeton University Pressįoreword to first Princeton Classics EditionĬopyright © 2017 by Princeton University Press Teacher, archt., Kansas State University, 1967-1973 Īssociate professor archt., Kansas State University, 1974 Teacher, architect, Princeton Graduate School, New Jersey, 1951-1952 Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture, Princeton University, 1951. Master of Fine Arts in Architecture, Princeton University, 1949. Son of Sia-tee and Sok-gat (Lin) Chang.īachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, National Chung King University, 1939.

Chang Gallery named in his honor Kansas State University.Ĭhang, Amos Ih-Tiao was born on Decemin District Pu-nin, Kwangtung, China.

Certified architect National Council Architectural Registration Boards registered architect Kansas, New York, Missouri. Amos Ih-Tiao Chang, Chinese architecture educator.
