After graduating from Tunghai University's Department of Architecture, Huang Sheng-yuan, born in the early 1960s, received a master's degree from Yale. He would later obtain a position at Eric O. Moss, a renowned architectural firm in Los Angeles, where he worked on a number of well-known projects, but he could never get used to the idea of "architecture for architecture's sake."
5 年級前段班的黃聲遠，自東海大學建築系畢業後，即前往美國耶魯大學取得碩士學位，之後就在洛杉磯頗知名的 Eric O. Moss 建築事務所任職，且參與許多著名的建案。