Ching-Hwa Chang

During the pandemic, architect Ching Hwa Chang demonstrated the role of biological intelligence, or the understanding of nature, in creating impactful spaces that improve people’s lives. In May 2020, the principal architect of Bio-Architecture Formosana built the world’s first disassembled and fully recycled negative pressure ward—a modular anti-epidemic ark called “Quarantine Units for Recovery, Emergency, and Ecology” on the National Cheng Kung University campus.

Chang founded Bio-Architecture Formosa in 1999, building one of the leading sustainable design practices in Taiwan and leading a group of architects and designers now known as the “National Construction Team.” Among Chang’s representative works include Taiwan’s first green library, the Beitou Public Library, which won the Taiwan Architecture Award, Excellence Award for Green Building, and Taipei City Urban Landscape Award, and the Pavilions for the Flora Expo in Taipei. Chang graduated with a masters in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and was a professor at the National Cheng Kung University and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.