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Jinqiu Zhang (1936.10 - ) is a Chinese professor-level senior architect, awarded as the first Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and works as the chief architect of China Architecture Northwestern Design and Research Institute.

Jinqiu Zhang did her undergraduate in the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University from 1954 to 1960. She then studied on "Architectural History and Theory" as a Master student in the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University from 1961 to 1966, with Architect Sicheng Liang and Professor Zongjiang Mo as her supervisors. Since February in 1966, she had worked on architectural design in China Architecture Northwestern Design and Research Institute, and became the chief architect since 1987.

Jinqiu Zhang advocates the architectural design philosophy that persists in exploring the combination of architectural tradition and modernity, and her design work is featured with the distinctive local flavor, integrating urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture as a whole.

Experience
In October, 1936, Jinqiu Zhang was born in an intellectual family in Chengdu, Sichuan province, with both parents received higher education on Architecture.

In 1948, she moved to Shanghai with her parents and studied in Liwuben Girl's High School (later renamed as Benli No. 2 Girl's High School).

From 1954 to 1960, she studied in the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University as an undergraduate student.

In 1960, she joined the Communist Party of China.

From 1961 to 1966, she did her Master on "Architectural History and Theory" in the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University.

Since 1966, she has conducted architectural design in China Architecture Northwestern Design and Research Institute.

In 1976, she was engaged in the design of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall.

In 1987, she began to works as the chief architect of China Architecture Northwestern Design and Research Institute.

In 1991,she was awarded as one of the first Chinese Engineering Construction & Design masters.

In 1991, she was elected as one of the first Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering.

In 1997, she was granted as the national first-class registered architect by the central government of China.

In 2005, she was elected the Architect of Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).

In 2000, she won the Liang Sicheng Architecture Award and the title of Model Worker of Shaanxi province.

On October 20, 2010, she won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Award for scientific and technological achievement, as the first woman in the foundation's history to receive the award.