Hsieh Ying Chun Architects & People’s Steel

Hsieh Ying Chun Architects & People’s Steel have been a leading force in developing and promoting sustainable lightweight steel houses in rural & ethnic areas since 1999. Our main goal is to improve the infrastructure and living environment of the rural area, leading to sustainable development as well as an ecological society. Our team has worked on and completed projects such as, 921 earthquake post-disaster reconstruction of Indigenous tribes in Taiwan, cooperative eco-house in Henan, China, 521 earthquake post-disaster reconstruction villages, Tibetan herdsman resettlements, as well as the reconstruction of Typhoon Morakot in Taiwan. Recently we have been actively involved with rural village development and reconstruction in Henan, Yunnan and Sichuan in China. We are recognized internationally and have been awarded Far Eastern Award for Outstanding Architecture Design, Best Practices by UN- Habitat, Special Committee Award of Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, and participated in the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2006 Venice Architectural Biennale and the 2009 Venice Biennale, Curry Stone Design Prize and Taiwan Architecture Award in 2011 and China Culture Figure of the Year in 2012.