Kris Yao/ARTECH: Selected and Current Works "The Master Architect Series V"

Although Yao's work has been prolific and has had a significant positive impact on the face of his homeland, Taiwan, he is still relatively young. Works featured in this book are also indicative of the enormous variety of projects he has undertaken with his firm ARTECH. These include corporate, residential, cultural, educational, hospitality, retail, transportation, and industrial projects, as well as interiors. In the words of his former professor at Berkeley University, who also wrote the introduction to this book, 'What the architects at Artech, throughout Taiwan, and now from lands far away, see: is a designer insistent upon rigour and high quality, one who is open to ideas regardless of their source; one who understands the building culture of his homeland and is committed to improving the status of architecture within it. The work within these pages is a testament that this commitment is yielding important results.'