Chi Ti-Nan's drawing was selected in the Shinkenchiku international design competition for 'The Style in the Year 2001' in 1985, which betokened the future of architecture and later founded the tune of his works. In 1995, Zheng's street house (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) project won his studio ,CHI'S WORKSHOP, the distinguished Asakura Award of SD Review. Then, he was selected as one of the innovative architects in Asia in 1996 in Japan.

Since 1999, Chi is leading the Urban Flashes workshops in collaboration with other architects, artist and cross-disciplinary experts in different cities. He has managed a network of worldwide intellects and practitioners intended to provide all kinds of possible vehicles through Flashers’ moves in order to deal with the subtle urban conditions that constantly emerging.

In 2002, Chi worked on summing up his ideas and experiences into a new direction under the title, Micro-Urbanism, in which he proposed a working method to combine the intangible micro-world and the tangible macro-world in conjunction with a multi-angled tactics based on incidentality, temporality and authenticity of practice towards achieving the design task of deep care.