Leon Yi-Liang Ko is a Taiwanese architect and an experimentalist of digital design and fabrication. In 2018, Leon was awarded with Taubman College Merit-based Scholarship to pursue a MSc. of Architecture in Digital and Material Technologies (DMT) at the University of Michigan, where he accomplished his capstone project "Precise Imprecision" and was a recipient of 2019 ACADIA Conference Selected Project as well as the Taubman College Alumni Council Award.
As a researcher, he always interrogates the emerging relationships between architecture, engineering, material, and computation in the digital era. His research and practice center on developing manufacturing methodology between advanced technology, material performance, and computational design as they relate to the built environment.
Prior to attending DMT, he possesses BArch and MArch from Tamkang University and acquired 2-year Junior Architect experience at Fieldscape Design (fa+p) in Taiwan. Since 2009 he had worked on multidisciplinary design offices, including construction, landscape, architecture, and academic areas.
SITU, Brooklyn, NY, US, Spring Intern
Involved in New York shared housing proposal.
_Data collecting, producing drawings, and typesetting.
Fieldscape Design (fa+p), Taipei, TW, Junior Architect
Involved in all projects of fa+p during 2015-2017.
_Developing schematic design, detail design and construction drawing of master planning, landscape, and architecture projects. Building parametric model and structural simulation as well as physical model and production of drawings.
Tamkang University, Department of Architecture, New Taipei City, TW, Teaching Assistant
Involved in lecturing the first-year student at Architectural Design and assisting department administration tasks.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US, Masters, MSc - Digital Material Technologies
