我最早知道与认识念慈同志(这是我们多年来对他的尊重及亲切的称呼),是在50年代中期。当时,他的北京饭店西楼曾给我以一种少有的兴奋感,我钦佩他是新中国一名风华正茂的建筑师。 较多的接触是在80年代后半期,先是在城乡建设环保部,后在中国建筑学会,他既是 I first knew and recognized Comrade Nicche (this is our respect and cordial title for him for many years). It was in the mid-1950s. At that time, the West Building of his Beijing Hotel had given me a rare sense of excitement. I admired him as a brilliant young architect in New China. The more contacts were in the second half of the 1980s, the first was the Ministry of Environmental Protection in urban and rural areas, and later in the Chinese Architectural Society. He was