Han Pao-teh practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Han Pao-teh as Taiwanese architect (1934-2014).
Han Pao-teh was born at Rizhao County in 1934. His recorded nationality is Taiwan. He trained at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Princeton University.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect, artist and calligrapher.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Taiwan shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Han Pao-teh died in 2014, aged 80. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Harvard Graduate School of Design and Princeton University
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