Chen Chi-kwan

Chen Chi-kwan (Chinese: 陳其寬; 1921–2007) was a Taiwanese artist, architect, and educator, particularly for his paintings and architectural work for Tunghai University.

Pei to design the Luce Memorial Chapel on the university campus, a hallmark of mid-century modernist architecture completed in 1963.

[citation needed] Chen's youth was strongly affected by China's War of Resistance against Japan and his family relocated in Chongqing, Sichuan Province.

[citation needed] Walter Gropius, recommended him as a part-time teacher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he taught from 1952 until 1954.

Judges said the "decorative colors, architectural lines and mystical spaces" in his paintings "inspired us to see our surroundings in a new light.