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Hu Hung-shu (b. 1935, Shanghai, China) studied architecture at Cheng-kung University,and afterwards taught basic design at Chung Yuan Christian and Tung Hai Universities.In 1966 he graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art (Michigan) with a MFA degree in design. From 1968 he was Head of the Design Department at the University of Iowa until his retirement in 2003 as emeritus professor. His works have been published in l.D. (America),M.D. (Germany), A.R. (England), J.A. (Japan)and Magenta Review (Mexico), among others.

He was one of the winners of theProgressive Architecture's First International Conceptual Furniture Competition. He had a one-man exhibition of his 3D works in Taipei Fine Art Museum that included a published catalogue entitled "The Aesthetics of Reasoning: Form in the Eyes of Hu Hung-shu." Hehas also published articles, such as "A New Mission for Design Education," "Form Follows Action," and "Organic Geometry--A Rationale to Create a Form". He has completed t6 pieces of public art work either through competition or invitation in the U.S. and has had many solo exhibitions of his oil Daintinqs.