托马斯教授(Thomas Schmid)是1940年代瑞士苏黎世理工学院(ETH)建筑系的毕业生,曾在美国、德国和中国任教,在慕尼黑工业大学任终身教授30年。在德国退休前后作为外籍教授来到中国,托马斯教授曾分别于1987~1988年在华中理工大学(现为华中科技大学)及1994~1996年在华南理工大学任教。当时正值中国建筑教育的国际化交流刚刚启动,在教育资源和共识尚未到位的情况下,教 Professor Thomas Schmid is a graduate of the Department of Architecture of the Zurich Institute of Technology (ETH) in the 1940s. He taught in the United States, Germany and China and was a tenured professor at the Technical University of Munich for 30 years. He came to China as a foreign professor before and after his retirement in Germany. Professor Thomas taught at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology) from 1987 to 1988 and at South China University of Technology from 1994 to 1996 respectively. At that time, the international exchange of China’s construction education was just started. In the absence of educational resources and consensus, education