Ann Yu-Chien (China Taiwan)
Professional Speakers

Ann Yu-chien is M. Arch graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, US and a registered architect in the State of Pennsylvania. She is now Head of the School of Design, and Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture in Shih Chien University ( SCU, Taiwan). Ann left America and returned to Taiwan to become a teacher in SCU in 1991. She was Dean of the Department of Architecture from 1999 to 2000, during which she was committed to education and curriculum reform and elitist faculty recruiting. She also presided over the master planning of SCU’s Taipei Campus. From 2004 till now she has been the Head of the School of Design, renovating the structure of creative education, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, and constructing international platform for design exchange.


Title of the Presentation: Romantic Cooperation-the Cultivation of Creative and Cross-Disciplinary Design