People and Organisations.
There are no buildings without people and institutions. Many people and organisations are involved in shaping the modern built heritage of Singapore. Besides architects and designers, there are other individuals like builders, engineers, clients, patrons, writers, publicists, and advocates. Individuals often belong to different types of organisations. These organisations—both public and private—are key to the construction and destruction, maintenance and neglect of our modern built heritage. In this page, we celebrate those who have played important constructive roles in the past.
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Dr. Norman Edwards
Norman will be remembered with affection by former colleagues and students as a gentle, cultured man with endless patience, who was the academic pivot in the School at a time when it was going through major changes in the 1980s.
Asian Planning and Architectural Collaboration (APAC)
APAC was building up a resistance against the uniformity of globalisation and the linguistic games of post-modernism at that time. Second, CIAM and the modern movement remained the counterpoint for APAC, and this brought APAC much closer to ethos of Team 10, where there was a persistent search for the a more humanist form of architecture.
Ng Keng Siang
Ng Keng Siang (1908–1967) was the most prominent of Singapore’s first generation of locally born, university educated architects. He ran an extremely successful practice, and had a career spanning pre- and post-war periods.
Lim Chong Keat
Datuk Seri Lim Chong Kiat (1930– ) is regarded as one of the most important architects of Singapore and Malaysia. His firms produced seminal architecture of the post-independence period, including the Singapore Conference Hall, the Malaysia Singapore Airlines Building (Singapore), and the Negeri Sembilan State Mosque (Seremban).
Ho Kwong Yew
Ho Kwong Yew (1903–1942) was the first local-born Asian to become a registered architect in Singapore. He passed the first professional examination conducted by the Board of Architects when the Architect’s Ordinance was introduced in 1927.
Alfred Wong Hong Kwok
Alfred Wong (1930– ) belongs to the first generation of post-war overseas educated local architects. His practice, Alfred Wong Partnership, spans five decades, traversing Singapore’s key political milestones from the late colonial period to merger with Malaysia to post-independence.