User:Pingchuan Fu

Pingchuan Fu, Chinese name, 傅平川, is an architectural designer currently working at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects in the US. He was born born Jan. 20, 1986 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 from his childhood so he chose Architecture as his major, one of the most competitive programs in Tsinghua University. It is also the top ranking Architecture program in China. In 2007, he successfully got into the architecture school’s combined program of bachelor and master of Architecture. He 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 to 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 August of 2010 and in the same month he started working 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, World Financial Center in New York, Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco, IFC in Hongkong, IFC in Shanghai.