Yang Hongxun

Yang Hongxun (; 4 December 1931 – 17 April 2016) was a Chinese architect, architectural historian, and archaeologist. He was a professor at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and a founder of the field of architectural archaeology in China. He graduated from the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University in 1955, and was assigned to work as an assistant to the renowned scholar Liang Sicheng at the Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He helped Liang found the Architectural Theory and History Research Office, which became part of the Institute of Architectural Sciences after 1957.

Design works

Yang designed the , which opened in 2009 in Anyang, Henan, the home of the oracle bones. The museum resembles the Chinese character yong , meaning "city wall", in its ancient pictographic form of the oracle bone script (a square representing walls surrounded by four gateways). However, his design choice has been criticized for being too literal rather than figurative, thus limiting the design solution.

He also designed the Longshan Culture Museum, which opened in 1994 at Chengziya, the type site of the Longshan culture, in Shandong. The museum is in the shape of a black bird, a sacred symbol of the culture.