Angela Chen-Mai Soong (Taipei, 1980), studied landscape architecture at Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her diploma in 2007. She also received a Master in Architecture & Urban Design from Columbia University in 2004.

She continued to do academic work as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Architecture and Urban Design Graduate Program at Columbia University from 2008 to 2012. Angela has also taught architecture and urban design studios at NYCU, FJU CYCU and SCU in Taiwan.

Angela has collaborated extensively with Balmori Associates and SCAPE in New York, working as lead landscape designer and coordinator for several large-scale master plans and landscape design projects. With SCAPE, the project “Oyster-Tecture” was part of the “Rising Currents” exhibition held at MoMA in New York in 2010.

In 2008 Angela co-founded  e c o s c o p e  with partner Manolo Ufer. Her combined expertise in both landscape and urban design has earned her a reputation as a trusted agent when critical responses to the production of public space are called for in the context of complex socio-economic issues and ecological habitat collapse.

Manolo F. Ufer (Madrid, 1976), studied architecture at the University of Edinburgh and at the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Honours Diploma in 2002. He also received a Master in Architecture & Urban Design from Columbia University in 2004.

His academic research “Urban Field Guide Baltimore” has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum in Washinton D.C. Manolo has taught architecture and urban design studios at ITESM, UDEM and CEDIM in Mexico and at NYCU and SCU in Taiwan.

Having gained experience at Legorreta Arquitectos in Mexico City and at Skidmore Owings & Merrill and SCAPE in New York,  he founded  e c o s c o p e  with partner Angela Soong in 2008. Amongst several projects, his experimental housing project “Ecoscopic House” in Mexico has been exhibited and published widely.

In Taiwan, Manolo has accumulated experience in several large-scale projects from early conceptual and strategic planning stages through to execution.  His current focus lies at the intersection of critical form, public space and urban development.

Vivie Chia-Yu Lin received her Bachelor in Interior Design from Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan. After graduating from Parsons School of Design in New York with a Master of Arts degree in Architectural Lighting Design, Ms. Lin worked for Tillotson Design Associates, a lighting design firm, where she was a Senior Project Manager.

In 2013 Vivie joined  e c o s c o p e  , bringing over ten years of lighting design and interior design experience to the firm. She has managed a wide range of projects from residential to small and large scale commercial, including corporate offices and campuses, hotels, schools, universities, public libraries, theaters, lobbies, facades, and landscapes.

Vivie is a member of International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and Illuminating Engineering Society (IES). She currently teaches Lighting Design at CYCU.

Peter Lo (Taipei, 1985) is a landscape architect with a Bachelor degree in Landscape Architecture from Fu-Jen University. He joined  e c o s c o p e  in 2015.

Before joining  e c o s c o p e , Peter worked for DA Vision in Taipei (2010-2015). Throughout his experience, he has learned that the practice of landscape design should not be limited to greening strategies, but should focus more on the integration of ecological systems in space through design. Peter’s area of expertise is always surfing between the scales of urban planning and construction details.

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Karen Hsin-Pei Wang (Taipei, 1989) studied landscape architecture at Chinese Culture University in Taipei, graduated in 2011.

She started her professional journey in 2009, employed by the professor in her 2nd year of university. Her experience includes National Museum of Taiwan, Pacific Seashore Bikeway, Wetland Bird hide, luxury residences and public housing. The diversity of the projects laid the foundation of her career.

In July 2016, Karen joined Ecoscope and helped execute the Xinzhongshan Linear Park, Wanghaisiang Pedestrian Bridge with the focused and faithful team. She believes that enhancing the public space is also the key to enhance the national identity here in Taiwan.

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Lewis Lee (Taipei, 1989) is an architect, graduated from Dept. of Architecture, Tamkang University (TKU) in 2013 with a bachelor degree in architecture, specialized in the field of piano music and architecture/landscape photography.

Lewis has been working at ecoscope for 5 years (Feb.2017 -) and previously worked at T.D.Lee Architects (Oct. 2014 - Jan. 2017), Ray Chen + Partners Architects (Sep. - Nov. 2013) and hap+4creative - Architecture and Interior Design (Feb. 2010 - Aug. 2013).

He has taught student architecture photography theory in photography workshop in Apr. - Dec. 2018 in TKU.‍

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Ruben Hallgren Pemer (Stockholm, 1993) is an urban designer and planner with a degree in Spatial Planning from Blekinge University of Technology (2013-2016) in Karlskrona, Sweden.

He has previously worked as an urban planner at Trollhättan Municipality (2016) as well as an urban designer at Plan- och Byggnadskonst i Lund (2016-2018), mostly focusing on early stage design work.

In 2018 he decided to relocate to Taiwan and soon after joined Ecoscope.

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Hsin Yi Wang (Taipei, 1996), landscape and architecture designer, graduated from Department of Architecture, Shih Chien University, received her bachelor degree in 2019.

Hsin Yi joined Ecoscope in March, 2022. She has previously worked for Oasis studio in Yilan county (2019-2021). Her experience includes public landscape project and architecture design project.

Juan Castañeda (Monterrey, Mexico, 1990) is an architect with experience on different scale projects from interior design to urban planning. He obtained his bachelor degree in Architecture in 2013 by the University of Monterrey (UDEM) and since then has been collaborating actively within the office. He has also worked on other practices such as Fernando Romero’s in Mexico City, specially in the New Mexico City’s International Airport (NAICM) in collaboration with Foster and Partners. Juan has experience as Associate Professor by coordinating the Architecture Technical Specialty at the Polytechnic High School Santa Catarina, by UDEM from 2018 to 2022.  He currently works on many projects in different parts of Mexico.

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Mr. Tang joined Ecoscope in 2013, has 10 years of Architecture design and building construction experience as PCM (professional construction management )to the firm. He has full experience in managing a wide range of projects from building  budget to the construction details.

Mr. Tang graduated from the Bartlett, University College London in the UK with a Master of Urban Design degree in Architecture School, 2011. After receiving his Bachelor in Architecture Design form Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan, 2002, Mr. Tang worked for his college  as full-time teaching assistance for one year.

After graduated from UK, Mr. Tang is delicated to a Architecture Studio in Chung Yuan Christian University as part-time tutor from 2014  and also worked  for Hsin-Chu City Hall as landscape consultant until today.

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