ARCH-595IN
In Memory of the Late Professor Stephen Tang
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[Introduction]
[About Professor Tang]
Introduction:
Guest speakers for this course are provided through the Tang Committee of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings (CCHRB) consisting of a number of our School’s
distinguished alumni and friends. The Tang Committee was formed to commemorate the significant contributions of the late Professor
Steven Tang to teaching and research during his tenure in the Structures option of the School of Architecture.
About Professor Tang:
Professor Stephen Tang, S.E., a former professor in the Structures Program of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
passed away on September 13, 1993, in Boston.
Professor Tang was born in Shanghai, China and came to the United States in 1936. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a
Bachelors Degree in Architecture in 1942, and a Masters degree in Architectural Engineering in 1944.
After graduation, Professor Tang worked for Holabird and Root, C.F. Murphy, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago before returning to teach at
the University of Illinois’ School of Architecture in 1960. During his tenure at the U of I, Professor Tang taught courses in reinforced concrete design
and developed and taught graduate level courses in structural planning. He was also the moving force behind the establishment of a structural model
laboratory for the School of Architecture.
Professor Tang left the U of I in 1974 to become professor of architecture at the University of Oregon where he retired in 1984. He was also a visiting
professor of Architecture at the Tong Ji University in Shanghai from 1982 to 1985.
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