List of Famous people with last name Huiyin

Lin Huiyin

林徽音

First Name Lin

Last Name Huiyin

Born on June 10, 1904

Died on April 1, 1955 (aged 50)

Born in People's Republic of China, Zhejiang

Lin Huiyin was a Chinese architect and architectural historian. She is known to be the first female architect in modern China and her husband the famed "Father of Modern Chinese Architecture" Liang Sicheng, both of whom worked as founders and faculty in the newly formed Architecture Department of Northeastern University in 1928 and, after 1949, as professors in Tsinghua University in Beijing. Liang and Lin began restoration work on cultural heritage sites of China in the post-imperial Republican Era of China; a passion which she would pursue to the end of her life. The American artist Maya Lin is her niece.

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