Born: Unknown, Hong Kong (assumed)
Died: Unknown
Country most active: Hong Kong
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from Women Architects Worldwide: Building a Diverse and Inclusive Canon by Aubree Tillett, edited by Aubree Tillett and Jess Ilias, an open-access Pressbook designed to uplift the names of women architects from almost every country and territory around the world. This entry is shared in line with the Creative Commons licensing.
Cheng Ying-Hsi is one of the first women architects in Hong Kong, and the only woman featured on a list of 93 authorized architects in Hong Kong in the 1953 Hong Kong Government Gazette. She holds a bachelor’s of engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and a master’s of engineering from the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. Cheng Ying-Hsi worked as an engineer for the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company prior to her employment in academia (1947). She was a lecturer in the Department of Engineering at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. She was also one of the first women to obtain a full-time appointment as a lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong (1954). Cheng Ying-Hsi served as a member of Britain’s Women Engineering Society, and she participated in the establishment of the Engineering Society of Hong Kong.
References
Seng, Eunice. “Working Women and Architectural Work: Hong Kong 1945–1985.” Aggregate 10 (November 2022). https://doi.org/10.53965/JPIE9054.