Architect and poet who with her husband 梁思成 surveyed China's ancient timber buildings and helped design the national emblem. Her poem 你是人间的四月天 is widely quoted.
She was first named 徽音, 'fine repute', after a line in the 诗经. She later changed 音 to the same-sounding 因 to avoid being confused with a male writer of the day, 林微音, whose name differs from hers by one look-alike character.
