Biographical Note
Luke Him Sau (陸謙受); aliase: Luk Tsang Shau (陸增壽)
1904-1927, Hong Kong
1904.7.29 Born in Hong Kong (Wongneichung Village, Happy Valley)
1915-1919 Wanchai Government School, Queen’s Road East, Hong Kong
1919-1922 St. Joseph’s College, Kennedy Road, Hong Kong
1923-1927 Articled to Messrs. Denison, Ram & Gibbs Architects, Civil Engineer & Surveyors, Hong Kong
1927-1930, London and overseas
1927-1930 Architectural Association School of Architecture, London; awarded the A.A. Diploma, 1930.7
1930.11 Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects
1930 Toured banks in Europe and the U.S. sent by the Bank of China
1930-1937, Shanghai, China
1930- Chief architect, Bank of China Head Office, Shanghai, designed Bank of China buildings in Shanghai, Nanjing, Qingdao, Jinan, Nanchang, Chongqing, Guiyang, Xiamen, Shantou, Yingkou, etc.
1931- Member, the Society of Chinese Architects; Vice President (1935)
1937-1945, Chongqing, China
1937- Retreated to Chongqing with the Bank of China in World War II
1941 Technical consultant, Air Raid Shelters Construction Committee
1942 Member, the Society for Research in Chinese Architecture
1943 Research member, Air Raid Precaution Research Council
1944 Member, the Chungking City Planning Board
1945-1948, Shanghai, China
1945- Chief architect, Bank of China
Private practice, Wu Lian Architects
Board Member, Shanghai City Planning Board, in charge of the Planning Section and the Designing Department, prepared the 25-year Redevelopment Plan for the City of Greater Shanghai
1947 Member, the American Society of Planning Officials
Member of the Town & Country Planning Council, Ministry of Interior, China
Head of the Greater Shanghai Master Plan Department, Shanghai, China
Professor of Architecture, St. John University Shanghai
1948-1968, Hong Kong
1949- Registered to practice in Hong Kong and Taiwan
1949- Private practice, Wu Lian Architects, H. S. Luke & Associates, and P.A.P.R.O., designed So Uk Estate; schools, welfare center, hospitals for Maryknoll Sisters; Wah Yan College Chapel, Chapel for the Regional Seminary for South China; Repulse Bay Towers and Mansions; Ritz Apartments; Rockymount Apartments; Cimbria Court Apartments; May May Co. Department Store Buidling; Airport Police Station; and other apartments, residences, etc.
1956 Foundation member, Hong Kong Society of Architects
1968-1970, New York
1973-1991, Hong Kong
1968- Wrote over 1,700 poems on various topics
1991.1.23 Died in Hong Kong