OCLAA Officers

  

 

2005-2006 OCLAA officers

 

 

President
Chung-Chih (Wind) Huang (
黃仲志)
Mr. Huang is a registered landscape architect in the state of Texas. He is a co-founder of HHL Group, Inc., a planning ad landscape architecture firm practicing in both China and USA. His areas of interest include health community for the elderly, resort design and development as well as business development in green industry. Mr. Huang received his B.S. in urban and regional planning from the National Chen-Kung University. From 1992 to 1993, he worked in the urban design section of the Taipei City. Mr. Huang then went to the United States and enrolled in the MLA program at Texas A&M University. Since graduating in 1997, he had worked for SLA Studio Land, TBG Partners and HOK planning group. While working in HOK Hong Kong offices, he had participated various projects in China. He also has a certificate in video and animation computer technologies. Currently he is working as a development project manager on a high-rise/mix-use project in Houston metropolitan area.

 

Vice President-Secretary

Peiwen Yu (俞沛雯)

Ms. Yu is a landscape designer with SWA Group since 2002, previously a landscape designer with EDAW, San Francisco. She earned her MLA degree from Texas A&M University in 2002, a master degree in Urban Planning and Design (2000) and a bachelor degree in Architecture (1997) both from Tsinghua University in China. Before came to US, Ms. Yu involved in many urban design/historical preservation projects in China. Since joined SWA, she has been working on a variety of community planning and design projects in the U.S. and China. She has particular interest in urban design and communities planning that are environmentally and culturally sensitive.


Vice President-Treasurer
Sirun Guan (
關思潤)

Ms. Guan earned her BA in urban planning from Tongi University in 1997, and later graduated from University of Kansas with a MA degree of urban planning-transportation in 2001. She has worked as planner for Kundson & Associates of Houston and Fleilich, Leitener & Carlisle (FLC) of Kansas City, and is now an associate at The Goodman Corporation (TGC) of Houston.

 

Vice President-Communications, Newsletters and Website
Chao-Yuan (Jeff) Hsiao (
蕭兆元)
Mr. Hsiao is currently pursuing his PhD from Texas A&M University. He holds a MLA degree from the University of Texas at Arlington, and a bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University. He worked for Wallace Roberts & Todd (WRT) Dallas office and Clark Condon Associates of Houston. Besides his academic pursuit, Mr. Hsiao is also active in international design competitions.

 

Vice President-Membership Recruiter and Services
Shaobo Du ()

Ms. Du is a landscape designer with TBG Partners since 2004. She earned her
MLA degree from Texas A&M University in 2004, a bachelor degree in
Architecture (2001) from Shenyang Architecture University in China. Since
joined TBG Partners, she has been working on a variety of community planning
and urban design projects in both U.S. and China.

  

Vice President-Public Relation
Rui Zhang (
張銳)
Ms. Zhang is currently a graduate student in Master of Landscape Architecture program in Texas A&M University. She earned a Bachelor degree in Urban Planning from Tongji University in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, she worked for the Tongji Urban planning & Design Institute as an urban planner and designer. Later she went to the United States and is pursuing her MLA now.

 

 

Board of Directors


(Chair) Chang-Shan Huang(
黃常山)
Dr. Chang-Shan Huang is an associate professor of landscape architecture of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University. He is a registered landscape architect in the State of Texas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, MLA from the Pennsylvania State University, and a bachelor degree in architecture from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His current scholarly interests are in the areas of healthy community design, urban design, evidence-based design methodology, and design communication.

 

Ching-Fung Lin (林慶豐)
Mr. Lin is the founder of M2L Associates Inc., a planning and landscape architecture firm. He has multi-disciplinary planning and design experience in regional/community planning, urban design, landscape design, transportation planning, as well as social service planning for the elderly. Mr. Lin's experience in the United States covers seventeen different states. His international practice encompasses China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, Korea, England, Ireland and Paraguay. In addition to planning and design, Lin is an expert in office and project management. He has developed a proprietary office management database system for management of design companies.

 

Ming Zhang (張明)

Dr. Ming Zhang is Assistant Professor in the Community and Regional Planning Program at the University of Texas at Austin. His research and teaching interests include urban land use-transportation planning, urban form and travel behavior, and GIS. Prior to joining UT Austin, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning at Texas A&M University (2001-04), Research Scientist at the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, New York (1994-96), and Lecturer and Licensed Planner/Designer at the Huazhong University of Science & Technology (China) (1988-93). Dr. Zhang holds the degrees of Ph.D. and M. S. (Transportation) from MIT, M. Regional Planning from SUNY Albany, and B. Arch. from Tsinghua University, Beijing.

 

Huan Rong (容歡)
Ms Rong earned her BLA from Beijing Forestry University in 1984. From 1996 to 1998, she worked for China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, National Park and Historic Site Research Planning and Design Institute. Later, she went to the United States and got her MLA degree from the Ohio State University in 1988. Since then, Ms Rong has worked for different design firms, including SWA Group, Peter Poon Architect (New York City), Landplan Engineers, Inc. (Lawrence, KS), and Bullock Smith & Partners (Knoxville, TN). Ms. Rong is currently a landscape architect in the SWA Group Sausalito office, taking charge of the Asia market.

 

Joseph Chow (周彩庭)
Mr. Chow has almost 30 years of progressively responsible experience with the Planning and Development Department of the City of Houston, Texas. He is retired from the City of Houston Planning and Development Department as an associate director.

 

(Student Representative) Baoliang Liu

Mr. Liu is currently a graduate student in Urban and Regional Science Program
at Texas A&M University. He received his B.S. in urban and regional planning
from the Shandong Institute of Architecture and Engineering in 1996. From
1996 to 1998, he worked for the Zibo Architecture Design and Research
Institute. Later he earned a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Tongji
University in 2001. Mr. Liu then came to the United States and is currently
pursuing his Ph.D. degree.

 

 

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