Built in 1926, the Red House Historic Monument has been stood on Taipei Tech’s campus for over 90 years and since an important icon for the university. But the longstanding history is not the only thing that makes this building so special. At the beginning, it was a memorial book room for celebrating Emperor Taishou’s 25^th wedding anniversary during the Japanese colonial period. Brick wall, wood purlin, stone decoration, and iron school emblem in air hole of the space are all distinctive architecture features at that time. Moreover, it is actually a collaborative project that integrated the work of teachers and students across different departments in school.

After the Second World War, it had been used as an accommodation, an office, a students’ consulting office, and the Gallery of the University History, respectively. Red House Historic Monument was enlisted as the municipal monument in 1998.

As time passed by, the Red House Historic Monument was temporarily closed to prevent any possible damage to the interior of the aged building. In the winter of 2016, in order to renew this meaningful building, the restoration project has begun. The plan was to remodel its internal space as well as to repair its exterior look. After almost a year of construction, the sleeping beauty finally awoke from hibernation in the spring of 2017. The opening ceremony was held on May 23 with over 500 distinguished guests, teachers, students, and staffs attended. Leehter Yao, Political Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, and Wei Tian, Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs of Taipei City Government were also invited to the event.

President Wenlung Li noted that this reconstruction has two layers of meaning. In the concrete level, it pours energy to an ancient building and gives it a new life. In the abstract level, it means that although Taipei Tech is a school with over 100 years of history, it remains without aging and become even newer as time goes by.

The two-floor building has three main uses including exhibition, special ceremony, and reception room for distinguished guest. In current plan, the first floor is for permanent exhibition of the Red House Historic Monument’s history. And the second floor is for special exhibition, Special ceremony such as honors and awards ceremony is also expected to be hold in this iconic space.