Lien Chou is renowned worldwide for lighting up historical and cultural landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty in the United States and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is the former president of Brandston Partnership, Inc., the largest architectural lighting design company in the US—where he started as a part-time designer in the summer of ‘78. After over 30 years at BPI, he eventually became a senior consultant.

With a successful career abroad, he returned to Taiwan and accepted projects such as the Hengchun Old Town in Pingtung, Tainan Fengshen Temple, Chimei Museum in Tainan, and the Yunlin Beigang Chaotian Palace. In 2019, he collaborated with artist Joyce Ho for a public art installation titled “Remains of the 13 Levels”, which reproduces the golden features of 13-storey ruins in the old mining town of Shuinandong in New Taipei County. Far from retiring, his work is a huge influence to Taiwan’s new generation of lighting designers.