From the introduction by Sam Davis
In spite of the prodigious amount of work produced by Yao, he is still relatively young. Perhaps his most enduring contribution will not be the buildings at all, but rather the example of creative entreprenurialism.
He has shown, in a country seemingly reluctant to accept the value of design, that it is not mutually exclusive to do many buildings, do them quickly, and do them well.
What the architects at Artech, throughout Taiwan, and now from lands far away, see: is a designer insistent upon rigor 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.publiarq.com