Friends of Docomomo.
Corporate and individual sponsors sought to support our programmes by funding or collaborating with us. Reach out to our team to find out more.
Docomomo Partners.
The efforts of Docomomo Singapore could never happen without the support of our partners. We therefore acknowledge their contribution to our efforts to make Singapore’s modern built heritage progressive once more.
National Heritage Board
The National Heritage Board (NHB) is the custodian of Singapore’s heritage. We are responsible for telling the Singapore story, sharing the Singaporean experience and imparting our Singapore spirit.
NHB's mission is to preserve and celebrate the shared heritage of our diverse communities, for the purpose of education, nation-building and cultural understanding. It manages the national museums and heritage institutions, and sets policies relating to heritage sites, National Monuments and the national collection. Through the national collection, NHB curates heritage programmes and presents exhibitions to connect the past, present and future generations of Singaporeans. Learn more at >
Urban Redevelopment Authority
We are Singapore’s land use planning and conservation authority. Our mission is to make Singapore a great city to live, work and play.
We strive to create an endearing home and a vibrant city through long-term planning and innovation, in partnership with the community. Learn more >
Singapore Heritage Society
Founded in 1987 as a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, SHS is an independent voice for heritage conservation in Singapore. Our work is guided by our definition of heritage as ‘the living presence of the past’. Singapore’s history is a vital part of our identity and growth. Social bonds are strengthened when we understand and cherish the social memories of past and present generations in the spaces we protect. These beliefs drive our key efforts in research, public education and advocacy. Learn more >
NUS Department of Architecture
Asia’s premier school of design, architecture, landscape and urbanism. We champion design excellence through a vision of ‘Architecture for Asia’. We advance impactful architectural solutions in the heart of Asia, and in the tropical centre of the world. Our design and research respond specifically to the challenges of the equator.
We are growing to meet the needs of our international student population and the rapidly evolving environment around us. We offer six different programmes including landscape architecture, urban design, urban planning and integrated sustainable design. Learn more >
Studio Lapis
Studio Lapis is a Singapore-based architectural conservation specialist consultancy with local and overseas projects. We provide specialist advice for all stages of conservation and adaptive reuse projects, from feasibility studies through design strategies to engaging builders and restoration works. The care for built heritage does not stop there – we offer support on the long term conservation management, maintenance, and repairs of historic building fabric. We also work on built heritage research, publication, and advocacy projects. Learn more >
WY-TO
WY-TO is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Singapore and Paris with a decade of built environment experience that focuses on holistic society improvements through purposefully planned spaces and everyday interactions.
Our intuitive concepts with distinct human-centric themes seek to educate and unify everyday interactions, regardless of background, religion, gender or age group.
We believe that empathetic and honest long-lasting design solutions are possible without undermining relevant needs in large cityscapes and other less urbanised contexts. Learn more >
Provolk Architect
Provolk is a Singapore registered architectural design practice. It is ‘pro-people’, seeking to design sensitively for people, provoke the status quo and preserve memories in our rapidly changing environment, with architectural and interior projects spanning regionally and locally.
Its founder, Jonathan Poh is also widely known for leading an initiative to ‘save’ Dakota Crescent’s post-war SIT estate in 2014. In collaboration with a group of architects and a social research team of diverse backgrounds, they produced a comprehensive conservation report that was instrumental in convincing the Member of Parliament to file a motion to conserve the area. Learn more >
Pocket Projects
Pocket Projects is a creative development consultancy and management company. We conceptualise, consult on and manage niche urban development projects both on our own, and on behalf of our investor and landowner clients.
Our key areas of expertise involve conceptualising unique solutions for the regeneration and adaptive reuse of distressed urban areas and heritage buildings. Our strong focus is on design and content, and our ability to combine sensitivity to architectural heritage and local context with a modern design aesthetic, informed by evolving consumer trends and new uses of space. Learn more >
AVS
Started off as a fine art printer, AVS Printing has over the years evolved into a full-fledged one stop professional printing house. We anchored our services upon state of the art technologies as well as unceasing efforts in searching for new ones and acquiring innovative know-hows which result in fast turn-around time, unsurpassed quality print, reasonable pricing and very satisfied customers. Learn more >
Contributors.
Jeremy San
Photography
The late Jeremy San Tzer Ning was an accomplished architectural photographer based in Singapore. Schooled in RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, as an interior designer, his graduation thesis was an ambitious photo-documentation project of modern heritage buildings that also spawned his photography career. Over a span of ten years until his untimely passing in 2013, Jeremy traversed the island documenting Singapore’s modern heritage, many of which have since been lost, for the book Our Modern Past, published in 2015 by Singapore Heritage Society. The 3-volume visual history of Singapore’s modern architecture is a sampler of Jeremy’s extensive, invaluable, and exceptional visual legacy. Learn more >
Darren Soh
Founding Member and Photography
Darren Soh’s photographic practice explores architecture, urban landscape and space. An established photographer who is most recognised for his documentation of vernacular architecture, Darren has been placed in several international photography awards over the years. His works have been shown widely, and has published several monographs including While You Were Sleeping (2004), For My Son (2015) and In the Still of the Night (2016).
Darren was one of the co-founders of Platform.sg, an initiative to showcase photography of Singapore or by Singaporean photographers. Learn more >
Chang Jiat Hwee
Executive Committee, Research and Content Lead
Chang Jiat Hwee (PhD, Berkeley) is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore. He is the author of A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture: Colonial Networks, Nature and Technoscience (2016). With Justin Zhuang and Darren Soh (photographer), he has just completed the manuscript for a book tentatively titled Everyday Modernism. He has been writing about architecture and the built environment in Singapore since 2003. Learn more >
Jason Ng
Founding Member, Research and Content
Jason Ng is a research assistant at the NUS Department of Architecture, currently researching the socio-cultural histories and technopolitics of air-conditioning in urban Asia. He studied Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art.
Justin Zhuang
Founding Member, Research and Content
Justin Zhuang is a writer and researcher of Singapore design histories. He has worked on various books and websites about design and urban life in Singapore. These include Fifty Years of Singapore Design (2016), INDEPENDENCE: The history of graphic design in Singapore since the 1960s (2012), Mosaic Memories: Remembering Singapore’s Old Playgrounds (2013) and School Crests Examination: The Stories Behind the Symbols (2013). Learn more >
Ronald Lim
Founding Member, Research and Content
Ronald Lim is an architect. He has worked in New York, Tokyo and Mexico City for globally recognised architects, including Cesar Pelli (AIA Gold Medallist) and Fumihiko Maki (Pritzker laureate), among others and locally with Forum Architects and Lekker Architects. He is concurrently the Chief Editor of The Singapore Architect magazine - the Singapore Institute of Architects' official journal - and serves on the Singapore Chapter committee of the Royal Institute of British Architect (RIBA). He teaches at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and runs his independent practice, Ronald Lim Architect. Learn more >
Jonathan Yee
Founding Member, Research and Content
Jonathan Yee is an Assistant Consultant at Studio Lapis, an architectural conservation consultancy. His research interest centers around Singapore’s modernist architecture, particularly on telephone exchange buildings in Singapore. He completed his Masters of Architecture at the National University of Singapore. Learn more >
Low Shi Ping
Founding Member, Research and Content
Low Shi Ping helms LSP Communications, which offers services in the areas of editorial, content development and public relations. Based in Singapore, Shi Ping is a proficient freelance writer who has accumulated more than 15 years of experience in the media industry and communications roles. Among the subjects she is well-versed in design, architecture, hospitality, luxury lifestyle and soft business news. Learn more >
Ho Weng Hin
Chair, Research and Content
Trained as an architect at NUS, Ho Weng Hin completed his postgraduate specialisation in heritage conservation at the University of Genoa, Italy. He is partner of Studio Lapis, an architectural conservation consultancy. Ho is a founding director of the Singapore National Committee of ICOMOS, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NUS. He is co-author of Our Modern Past: A Visual Survey of Singapore Architecture, 1920s-70s, and a former Editor of The Singapore Architect. Learn more >
Tan Kar Lin
Executive Committee, Research and Content
Tan Kar Lin received her architecture degree, and an MA in research for her thesis on Singapore’s urban entertainment parks of the 1920s-80s, from the National University of Singapore. She is a founding partner of Studio Lapis, and founding director of ICOMOS Singapore. From 2005-2007, she was the co-editor of Singapore Architect, the journal of the Singapore Institute of Architects. She is co-author of Our Modern Past: A Visual Survey of Singapore Architecture, 1920s-70s. Learn more >
Dinesh Naidu
Research and Content
Dinesh Naidu is a Deputy Director at the Centre for Liveable Cities. Prior to that, Dinesh was active as an independent researcher-writer as well as a social activist in the fields of urban design, development, and heritage. He was Executive Secretary of the Singapore Heritage Society, Deputy Editor of Singapore Architect magazine, and was a researcher at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture at NUS. Dinesh studied architecture at NUS, and graduated with a specialist honours degree in architectural history and theory in 1999. Learn more >
Randy Loh
Photography
Our eyes capture and frame a visual representation of the world for our soul. Each painting, each frame, represents a moment in time. The progression of life, stringed together in sequences, framed by the lenses we've chosen, is a unique story told through the eyes of each individual. DP and photographer at Very!, Randy has been creating images for the past 15 years. He shares a very personal visual perspective on matters that pique his interest - architecture, food, landscape, history and documentaries spanning from medical, to lifestyle, to narratives involving controversy and intrigue. Learn more >
Jonathan Poh
Secretary and Content
Jonathan Poh is Principal Architect of Provolk Architects and Director at WY-TO. He is a registered architect and member of the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA). He received his Master of Architecture Degree from the National University of Singapore. He is more widely known for leading an initiative to “save” Dakota Crescent’s post-war SIT estate following the announcement to redevelop the area in 2014. He also teaches as an Adjunct Lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic’s Design School. Learn more >
Karen Tan
Treasurer
Karen Tan is the founder of Pocket Projects, a creative development consultancy focused on conceptualising solutions for the regeneration and adaptive reuse of distressed urban areas and heritage buildings. Prior to starting Pocket Projects, Karen was an investment banker in Citigroup London focused on real estate. She read architecture briefly at the University of Melbourne and has a BSc Economics and Masters in Real Estate Economics and Finance from the London School of Economics. Learn more >
Orapan Hongchintakul (Tuk)
Founding Member, Website, and Outreach Consultant
Tuk is a brand, marketing, and digital consultant with a background in hospitality and tourism industry. Tuk support Docomomo Singapore by developing the website, provide consultant on content strategy and outreach programme. Originally from Bangkok and have lived in Singapore for the last decade, she has a Master’s degree in communication management from SMU, an International MBA from University of Denver, and a Bachelor of Business from Thammasat University. Learn more >
Trainees and Volunteers.
Current and past short-term volunteers and trainees who have helped Docomomo Singapore in our activities and campaign.
Miraya Bhayani (July — August 2021)