While at the Tsinghua College, a preparatory school attended by Chinese students who would be sent to study in the United States, he was a member of the college art club and chorus, an editor of the college magazine and led the college marching band. He once won the first prize in a high-jump competition.
His quest to learn new things and his cross-disciplinary passion contributed to his field research in his later years.
He also trained his students at Tsinghua to be architects with an aesthetic consciousness.
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Young imaginations on vibrant display
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Louvre exhibits show influence of China