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Award | BaF and Lin Chang-Lien Honored at the Taiwan Sustainable Architecture Awards

2026-05-18
The winners of the 2nd Taiwan Sustainable Architecture Awards (TwSAA) have been announced. BaF was recognized with the “Excellence” distinction in the Architectural ESG Performance Awards category, while Principal Architect Lin Chang-Lien received the Outstanding Contribution Award for Sustainable Architecture.
Bio-architecture Formosana has embraced “coexistence with the environment” as its core philosophy, responding to the issues of high carbon emissions and resource consumption within the building industry. The firm continues to advance low-carbon design, sustainable architecture, and circular economy strategies. By approaching projects through the perspective of the building life cycle, sustainability has become an integral part of its design language across a wide range of project types, continuously refined through technical validation and accumulated built experience.

Every client presentation begins with the phrase: “We design with the Earth in mind.

More than a statement of design philosophy, these words serve as a reminder for designers to return to the environment itself, to listen carefully to the messages conveyed by the site and its natural surroundings, to respond to and respect site conditions with humility, and to integrate creative technologies into tangible and implementable sustainable strategies.