Recent Unit Research Agenda

Taiwan1970-1990 ( Taiwan Economic bloom )
Last year, we had challenged some of the rapid industrialisation of Taiwan cities and its future visions. This year, we have begun to ask questions of the modern metropolitan regions. We have been observing some of the most rapid transforming Asian cities and comparing their significance to global shifts in the patterns of urban growth and decline.

Taiwan 1990-2000 ( Economic transformation)
The team have explored the current urban transformation to systemic design praxis. Understanding how cities have been transformed not only the environment but its commercial value, policies, up coming technologies, climate changes, renewal energy and to wider global positioning in respond to ASEAN. The work starts asking simple urban issues ie: why we live in the grid city? How our building typologies have been shaped the way we are now. All the questions derived from the historical transformation of its economic and cultural development in the past. The primary outcome of those issue will become a set of documentation/diagram than later on to be exercised and tested to be the new architectural and urban future alternatives.

 
Taiwan 2000-2020 ( Outside the ASEAN)
In the long stream of the Asian urban and economic development, Taiwan has always been settled in an individual territory due to its political realm.  Taiwan urban formation has strong influences by its nearby Asian countries yet individual. Architects and planners have thinking instead of a typical pan Asian development. We have strived the way to identify ourselves as unique individual. This opens up the opportunities and global re-think by our particular social, territorial and pan Asian interconnection and research by the students.