Current Positions

President, Taiwan Institute of Landscape Architects / IFLA, Taiwan

Director, Sustainable Built Environment Research Center, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

Chief Landscape Adviser, Yilan County, Taiwan

Committee Member, Urban Planning Commission, Yilan County, Taiwan

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Geography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Master in Landscape Architecture (MLA), University of Oregon, USA

Bachelor in Landscape Architecture (BLA), University of Oregon, USA

Bachelor in Economics (BA), Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

Professional Experience

Vice President, ECG International Consultants (1995–2009)

Committee Member, Urban Design Commission, New Taipei City, Taiwan (2013–2015)

Committee Member, FIABCI-Taiwan Real Estate Excellence Awards, Cultural Environment Category (2006–present)

International Teaching Experience

Visiting Scholar, Erasmus Mundus Program, France (2015)

CYCU Global Study Programs, Department of Landscape Architecture:

France Landscape Workshop (2012–2014)

Western United States Workshop (2009–2011)

Academic Research

Wang, K. Y.; Chou, R. J. (2016). Static policy for dynamic landscape? A study of landscape notions expressed in planning policy and local people’s perception in Sicao, Taiwan. International Development Planning Review, 38(2), 159–178. (SSCI)

When an island stops being an island: Development, change and identity, the case in Yilan. Anatomy of Islands Conference, Croatia (2015)

A study of the framework for using perceptual information in landscape planning (2015)

Landscape perception and the reading of landscape (2015)

Unraveling the landscape logics: using land art as a medium to reveal the links between farming practices, biodiversity and landscape. 26th PECSRL, Sweden (2014)

From scenery to landscape, from design to management: New understanding of landscape for new dimension of landscape profession (2014)

The improvement of institutional and legal infrastructure for the landscape profession of Taiwan (2013)

New dynamics of landscape: Using land art as a medium for dialogue between protected coastal forest and tourism. 25th PECSRL, The Netherlands (2012)

The beauty of rural landscape in the eyes of the farmers in Taiwan. 24th PECSRL, Latvia (2010)

Organization of International Exchange Programs, Workshops, and Conferences

2016 — Festival of Land Arts and Creativity, Yilan, Taiwan

2016 — New Horizon Landscape Workshop, Yilan, Taiwan

2015 — Yilan Landscape Forum, International Workshop and Conference

2014 — Yilan Landscape Forum, International Workshop and Conference

2013 — Yilan Landscape Forum, International Workshop and Conference