Born in 1946 in a Hakka village in Pingtung’s Jiadong Township, Tseng Kuei-hai was not only a poet but also a doctor, social campaigner, and environmental activist. After graduating from the School of Medicine at Kaohsiung Medical College, Tseng worked as a pulmonologist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital from 1973 to 1976.
Located in Shilin District of Taipei City, the Taipei Performing Arts Center is a dedicated performing arts and cultural facility, which has geometrical shapes with a total space area of 50,000 m2. The building was designed by David Gianotten and Rem Koolhaas from the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in collaboration with ARTECH.