Xiu Zelan (Chinese: 修澤蘭; 15 August 1925 – 27 February 2016), also written as Hsiu Tse-Lan,[1] was a Taiwanese architect.
Her modernist interpretations of traditional motifs gained the attention of Chiang Kai-shek, and in 1965 she took charge of Yangmingshan's Chung-Shan Building project.
[3] Designed to house state ceremonies, the Chung-Shan Building brought Xiu acclaim and the project was subsequently considered to be one of her crowning achievements and earned the popular title "Number 1 Female Architect of Taiwan".
The university was previously situated in Nanjing, but moved to Chongqing due to disruption of the Second World War.
Upon graduation, she began practicing as an architect, entering her first job at the Ministry of Communications at Nanking (also known as Nanjing) in 1947.