On June 09, 2016 there were announced winners of the International contest of architectural drawing ArchiGraphics. PhD degree student of the Chair of History and Theory of Architecture of Saint Petersburg state university of architecture and civil engineering Xu Wei won the second prize in nomination “Drawing from life”.
The contest was held by the site Archplatforma.ru under the supervision of chief architect of Moscow S.O. Kuznetsov, bureau WALL, HP company. The purpose of the contest is to make an architectural drawing more popular among artists and visitors, define and grant talented authors.
Mr. Xu Wei submitted to the contest a series of his works “Traditional villages in China”. Being a citizen of this country the author managed to reflect its beauty and singularity, paying attention to details and joining them into common expressive and poetic images. The judges highly estimated the artistry of the author.
In 2015 Xu Wei participated in the contest, which was held in China, and was granted a national prize of China for talented students and young scientists, who entered foreign higher education institutions basing on their own knowledge. It shall be noted that in Russia only two PhD degree students received this prize, and both of them are PhD degree students of Saint Petersburg state university of architecture and civil engineering – Xu Wei and Xu Yun. The awards ceremony took place on June 10, 2016 at China Embassy in Moscow.
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of China in the Russian Federation Mr. Li Huey sent a letter to scientific supervisors of PhD degree students – Svetozar P. Zavarikhin (D.Sc. in architecture, professor of the chair of history and theory of architecture) and Vladimir N. Glukhikh (D.Sc. in engineering, associate professor of the Chair of Mechanics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering), in which he thanked professors for the significant contribution made into education of PhD degree students in Russia.
“You give scientific knowledge, but you also bring up love to science, attention to humanity and esteem the friendship between Russia and China. I am confident that under your supervision they will become highly qualified specialists and scientists and will continue traditional partnership relations between peoples of China and Russia”, - reads the letter of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of China in the Russian Federation.
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