Shan DEQI,born in 1937 in Anhui Province,graduated from the Civil Engineering and Ar-chitecture Department of Tsinghua University in 1960 and majored in architecture.He was formerly Director of “the Teaching and Re-search Section for Architectural Design”of the Architecture Department of Tsinghua Univer-sity,and the Vice-President of the School of Architec-ture of Tsinghua University as well as tutor of dooctoral graduate students,Member of the Academic Committee,and Vice Director of the Academic Degree Committee.Shan Deqi has published monographs in-cluding Ⅲ ustrations of Chinese Traditional Vernacular Dwelling,etc.