User:Fupingchuan

Chinese name 傅平川. Born Jan. 20, 1986. He was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province in the People's Republic of China. He attended the Nanchang No.2 middle school and achieved good grades. In 2003, he took the national entrance examination for college in Jiangxi Province and ranked 13 in the whole province which enabled him to get into Tsinghua University in Beijing, the most prestigious university in China. He has an interest in drawing since his childhood so he chose Architecture as his major. The Architecture program at Tsinghua University is considered to be the architecture program in China and one of the hottest majors at Tsinghua. After an intense design examination, he was successfully enrolled in the architecture department’s combined program and graduated from Tsinghua University with a Bachelor of Architecture in 2007 and a Master of Architecture in 2009. In August of 2009, shortly after he graduated from Tsinghua, he went onto the US and achieved another Master of Architecture degree from Cornell University. It was a one year three semester M.Arch2 program. He graduated in 2010 and within two weeks after the graduation, he started work for Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects in New Haven, CT. The firm is renowned for its design of high-rise buildings such as the Petronas Towers in Malaysia.