Postdoctoral Fellow, Architecture, National Cheng Kung University (2011-2012)
Planner/ Project Manager, NTU Building and Planning Foundation (2004-2005)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (2018-to date)
Executive Editor, Journal of Design Research (2019-to date)
Principal Investigator, Planning and Management of Military Kindred Village Resource Centre of ROC (Taiwan) (2020-to date)
Co-PI, Workstation Planning for Regeneration of the Abandoned Taoyuan Airbase Historic Site, Taoyuan City Government (2022)
Principal Investigator, Feasibility Explorations of Revitalizing an Abandoned Military Kindred Village by an Elderly Day Care Centre Planning, MOST (2021-2022)
Principal Investigator, the Impact of Industrial Development on the Everyday Life and Urban Morphology: Case Studies in the Coastal Areas around Datan Algal Reef, MOST (2019-2021)
Principal Investigator, Explorations of Local Organizations Guiding Public Participation in the Practice of Livable Smart City Indicators, MOST (2016-2019)
Co-PI, Counseling Group for the Regeneration of Historic Site Projects, Ministry of Culture (2017-to date)
Co-PI, Environment and Landscape Planning Consultant Project of Taoyuan, Taoyuan City Government (2020-to date)
AWARDS
Teaching Excellence Award of University Social Responsibility, CYCU (2022)
College Student Research Creativity Award (Supervisor), CYCU (2022)
College Student Research Creativity Award (Supervisor), Ministry of Science and Technology (2020)
MOST Special Outstanding Talent Award (2017)
Best Paper Award, the 28th Issue of Architecture Research (2016)
Annual Award for Research, FCU (2014, 2017)
Best Paper Award, Taiwan Scientific Symposium in UK (2008)
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Liu, Wei-Kuang (2018). ‘The Social Practice for Deconstructing the Value of Public Arts in Place Making’. Public Art, 2018 (4): 12-17
Liu, Wei-Kuang, Li-Wei Liu, Yi-Shiang Shiu, Yang-Ting Shen, Feng-Cheng Lin, Hua-Hsuan Hsieh (2017). ‘Explorations of Public Participation Approach to the Framing of Resilient Urbanism’, IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 83: 232-237.
Liu, Wei-Kuang (2016). ‘Explorations of Urban Blocks and Alley Fabric in the Historic City Center of Tainan for Conservation and Regeneration Implementation’. City and Planning, 43 (2): 147-159.
Liu, Wei-Kuang, Chi-Pang Lu, and Shih-Ming Chen (2013). ‘The Cultural Implications of the Fringe Belt Morphological Character in the Contemporary Everyday Life of Tainan’. Journal of Architecture, 85: 227-244.
Liu, Wei-Kuang (2009). ‘Everyday Life, Morphology and Urban Conservation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Urban Change’. Journal of Edinburgh Architectural Research, 32: 79-84.
Liu, Wei-Kuang (2008). ‘Envisioning Everyday Life: Explorations of Visualization Techniques’. Electronic Visualization and the Arts, 2008: 142-151.
Books
Liu, Wei-Kuang (ed.) (2023). Colors of the Military Kindred Villages: Strolling through the Cultural Landscape of 30 Military Kindred Villages in Taiwan. Taoyuan: Taoyuan City Government. (ISBN: 978-626-7264-40-9)
Liu, Wei-Kuang, Yi-Sheng Chang, et al. (eds.) (2016). Community Planning 15, Changing of Taichung, 0 Plan: Retrospect, Germination, and Transformation. Taichung: Taichung City Government. (ISBN: 978-986-04-9381-8)
Liu, Wei-Kuang (2011). Managing Changes: Tensions between Urban Morphology and Everyday Life in the Heterotopic Urban Context of Tainan. PhD Thesis, Architecture, University of Edinburgh.
Chou, Wei-Chung, Chiung-Fen Wu, Wei-Kuang Liu, et al. (eds.) (2005). Charming Community Development of Taiwan 3. Taipei: Construction and Planning Agency, Ministry of the Interior.
Book Sections
Liu, Wei-Kuang (2022). ‘The Military Kindred Villages and the City: Formation and Evolution of the Context’. In The Sixth Fuel Documental: the Sixth Fuel Factory in Motion, Lai, W.S. et al. (eds.). Hsinchu: National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University: 266-274. (ISBN: 978-986-5470-32-6)
Liu, Wei-Kuang (2016). ‘Morphological Analysis’. In Creative Thinking and Practices, Jai, B.R. et al. (eds.). Taichung: Feng Chia University. (ISBN: 978-986-5843-38-0)
Liu, Wei-Kuang (2016). ‘The KJ Method’. In Creative Thinking and Practices, Jai, B.R. et al. (eds.). Taichung: Feng Chia University. (ISBN: 978-986-5843-38-0)
Liu, Wei-Kuang (2008). ‘Envisioning Everyday Life: Explorations of Visualization Techniques’. In Electronic Visualization and the Arts, Dunn, S. with S. Keene, G. Mallen and J. Bowen (eds.). London: British Computer Society: 142-151. (ISBN: 978-1-906124-07-6)