Kuang-Yu Wang

Dr. Kuang-Yu Wang is a landscape architect and associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture, Chung-Yuan University, Taiwan where, beside teaching, he actively participates in public landscape projects and serves on juries for various landscape awards. 

After received a bachelor degree in Economics in Taiwan, Dr. Wang went to the US and received a bachelor (BLA) and a master degree (MLA) in Landscape Architecture. Returned to Taipei, he worked for more than fifteen years in landscape architecture professional practice and teaching part-time in universities. After he received a PhD degree in Geography, Dr. Wang turned to full time teaching while maintaining close professional contacts. 

Dr. Wang is the author of the book” Reading the Five Dimensions of the Landscape”. The book stresses the importance for the landscape architecture profession to clarify the concepts of landscape and to use the five interlayered dimensions to offer new perspectives on landscape architecture. He believes that a landscape professional should think like a philosopher, distinguishing the nature and value of things while acting like an engineer, embodying ideals through valid methods, knowledge, and techniques. And above all, a landscape professional should have the heart of an artist, pursuing creativity and beauty. 

His interests include the history of landscape architecture, landscape studies, landscape design and planning theories. Recently, he has been focusing on using the ideas of the five dimensions of the landscape to explore new approaches to landscape architecture, and on employing 'food' and 'art' as tools for the interpretation, representation and management of landscape embedded in sustainability, locality, vitality, inclusivity, and with vivid identity.