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'Liang Ssu-Cheng' (Chinese: 梁思成; Pinyin: Liáng Sīchéng; April 20, 1901 - January 9, 1972) is the son of Liang Qichao, a well-known Chinese thinker in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), and returned from the United States after studying at the University of Pennsylvania. His first wife was Lin Huiyin and his niece is Maya Lin.
Liang is the author of China's first history on Chinese architecture and founder of the Architecture Department of Tsinghua University. He was on the consulting panel which designed the United Nations headquarters in New York.
He died in Beijing in 1972.