Beijing News According to the official WeChat account of Beilin Garden Information, he is an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a famous landscape architect and landscape educator, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, and a doctoral supervisor. , died in Beijing at 23:12 on July 15, 2022, due to ineffective treatment. He was 90 years old.
Academician Meng Zhaozhen was born on September 13, 1932 in Wuhan, Hubei Province. In September 1952, he was admitted to the Department of Horticulture, Beijing Agricultural University, to study gardening. He graduated in July 1956 and stayed at the school. Due to the adjustment of the department, he entered the Urban and Residential Department of Beijing Forestry University. He taught in the District Greening Department (the predecessor of the School of Landscape Architecture of Beijing Forestry University) and participated in the preparatory work for the Beijing Forestry University landscape architecture major and the landscape architecture department. In 1988, he served as the director of the landscape architecture department of Beijing Forestry University. In 1999, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering . He once served as deputy director of the Landscape Architecture Expert Committee of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, honorary chairman of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture, leader of the Landscaping Advisory Group of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, and other social positions.
Academician Meng Zhaozhen has profound academic training and profound attainments. He has been engaged in teaching and scientific research in the field of landscape architecture planning and design throughout his life. He is committed to inheriting and developing the national tradition of Chinese gardens. He advocates that "it is beneficial to open the book with pictures on the left and pictures on the right, and the essence can be found after modeling mountains and waters." He pioneered the idea of borrowing scenery as the core The traditional Chinese garden design sequence and gardening philosophy - "Meng's Six Hans"; the academic masterpieces "Chengde Summer Resort Garden Art" and "Garden Yan" have become Chinese garden thoughts represented by " Garden Ye " Milestone academic integration of creative inheritance and development; presided over representative planning and design projects such as the overall design of Shenzhen Xianhu Botanical Garden, the courtyard environment design of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, and the "Linquan Aomeng" rockery design of Beijing Olympic Forest Park, and has become a leader in Chinese landscape architecture. It has epoch-making significance in the academic world; it has won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture, the China Forestry Science and Technology Contribution Award, the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture, the First Prize of the Urban Construction Award of Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, and the Excellent Design Award of the Ministry of Construction.
Academician Meng Zhaozhen is a role model for others and has a lot of peaches and plums. Systematically build a modern landscape architecture planning and design discipline system, and call for efforts to promote the establishment of landscape architecture first-level disciplines and landscape architecture professional degrees; the editor's "Landscape Engineering" and "Landscape Architecture Engineering" have become the preferred textbooks for landscape architecture majors in domestic universities. ; The courses "Explanation of Examples" and "Analysis of Famous Scenery" have been established for 30 years and have remained popular; it has trained 11 master's students, 44 doctoral students, and 1 postdoctoral fellow; it was the first to introduce the IFLA Conference College Student Design Competition to China, and guided graduate students in 1990 Won the first place in China's first IFLA student competition and the UNESCO Award, and subsequently won many awards, establishing China's international leading position in landscape architecture education; won the Baosteel Education Fund Outstanding Teacher Award.
Academician Meng Zhaozhen’s life is a life of patriotism, struggle and dedication. The death of Academician Meng Zhaozhen is a major loss to my country’s academic community, higher education circles and Beijing Forestry University. His academic attainments and charisma will always be remembered and admired by us, and his scientific spirit and noble moral character will always be respected and learned by us! Academician Meng Zhaozhen is immortal!
In compliance with the wishes of Academician Meng Zhaozhen and his family, the funeral will be kept simple and no farewell or memorial service will be held. Beijing Forestry University will organize a series of memorial activities online.
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editor Chen Yanting
