Davisi BOONTHARM
Assistant Professor (Dr)
Doctorat en projet architectural et urbain (Paris8), DEA projet architectural et urbain (ENSA Paris Belleville), CEA Metropole d’Asie Pacifique (ENSA Paris La Villette) B Arch (hon), Registered Architect (Thailand)
Email: akidb@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• City and consumption spaces/places
• Urban culture and subculture

Research Interests
• Bangkok : commercial forms and urban evolution, urban commercial districts
• Comparative study of urban youth culture districts in Asian cities
• Contemporary shophouses
• Urban gentrification
• The power of “word” in urban design teaching and learning

Ruzica BOZOVIC-STAMENOVIC
Assistant Professor (Dr)
Dr.Sci. M.Sci. Dipl. Ing.Arch.(Belgrade Un.), Spec. (R.D.A.F.A.Copenhagen, Belgrade Un), AYA (Assoc. of SCG. Arch.)
Registered Architect (SCG)
Email: akibsr@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Healthcare architecture.

Research Interests
• Spaces of healthcare.
• Design of healthcare facilities - redefinition of processes and methods in education and practice.
• Housing and primary healthcare.

BOUCHARENC, Christian Gilles
Assistant Professor (Dr)
PhD. MA (KDU, Japan)
Email: akicgb@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Theory and practice of design with particular respect to teaching and learning basic design.
• Method of classifying and analysing the typology of kitchens, bathrooms and storage systems in the context of the design of apartment and residence spaces mindful of cultural issues.

Research Interests
• Development of a new methodology to elaborate the basic design exercises based on rational identification of the pedagogic objectives and means.
• Apartment systems.
 

CHAN Yew Lih
Associate Professor
MA (Conservation Studies) (York), DipArch (PolySing), MSIA, Registered Architect (Singapore), MSIA, RIBA
Email: akicyl@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Conservation & urban design.

Research Interests
• Implications of land-use and transportation on conservation.
• Adaptive reuse of shophouses.
• Conservation on the Drum & Bell Tower Conservation Area in Beijing NUS funded project.
• Good Southeast Asian streets and urban spaces. NUS funded project.

Cheah Kok Ming
Senior Lecturer
BA(Arch. Studies.), B Arch(Hons)
Registered Architect
Email: akickm@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Pedagogy of Architectural Technology
• Poetics & Pragmatics of Detailing

Research Interests
• Multi-functional Architectural Elements
• Strategies in Detailing Design Intent
• Managing Detail Production

CHANG Jiat Hwee
Teaching Assistant (on study leave)
MArch (NUS), BA (Arch Studies) (NUS)
Email: akicjh@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• (Post)colonial history of tropical architecture in Southeast Asia.

Research Interest
• Science and technological studies of sustainable architecture.
• Constructions of nature and the production of tropical architecture.
• Tropical architecture and the air-conditioned body: The transnational production and consumption of Balinese resorts.
• Knowledge, discourses and institutions: history of the architecture profession.
• Behind the scientific front: the formation and transformations of building science.
• Natural traditions: constructing tropical architecture in transnational Malaysia and Singapore.
 

Lilian CHEE

Assistant Professor (Dr)
PhD, MSc (Architectural History. Distinction), (The Bartlett, UCL), BArch (Hons), BA(Arch Studies) (NUS)

Email: l.chee@nus.edu.sg

HEE Limin
Assistant Professor (Dr)
DDes (Harvard University), MA(Arch) NUS, Registered Architect (Singapore), BA(Arch Studies) (NUS), BArch (Hons)
Email: akiheelm@nus.edu.sg

Research Area
• Public Space
• Sustainable Urban Development
• Asian Space
• Waterfront Developments
• Architecture and Urban Studies

HENG Chye Kiang
Professor (Dr)
PhD (Berkeley), Postgraduate Certificate (Tsinghua University), CES en Amenagement Urbain (ENTPE France), DipArch (ESA France)
Email: akihck@nus.edu.sg 

Research Focus
• History, design and planning of Chinese cities.
• Asian urban design and public spaces.

Research Interests
• The development of cityscapes in medieval China.
• Digital reconstruction of historical Chinese cities.
• Urban transformation and public space in Asian cities.
• Planning of Chinese Cities
• Conservation of built heritage.

LAI Chee Kien
Assistant Professor (Dr)
PhD, University of California at Berkeley, USA, MArch by research, B Arch (Hons.), NUS, Registered Architect (Singapore)
Email: akilaick@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Post-war architecture in Malaysia

Research Interests
• Architecture and urban design in post-war Southeast Asia
• Vernacular architecture in Austronesia
• History of art in Southeast Asia
• Architectures of nationalism

LEE Kah Wee
Teaching Assistant (on study leave)
BArch (Hons) UNSW
Email: akilkw@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Design Guidelines and review processes in Singapore.
• Singapore’s urban transformations and myths in the period of globalisation.

Research Interests
• The role and practice of design guidelines and reviews in transforming and imaging cities.
• Contemporary architectural/urban theory, in particular the discursive relationship between text, image and building/space.
• Intersections between globalisation and urban culture.
 

Erik G. L'Heureux
AIA LEED AP
Master of Architecture, Princeton University B.A. in Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis AIA, LEED accredited Profession, NCARB Certified, Registered Architect - New York State, State of Rhode Island USA
Email: akierik@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• History and Theories of Urban Utopias,
• Accommodating formal systems and Design Methodology, Environmental calibration

Research Interests
• Singapore, Utopias, ecological catastrophe Gated communities and the cruise ship Transformation graphical and drawing representation, visual theory
 

LIM Ee Man, Joseph
Associate Professor (Dr)
PhD (Heriot-Watt), MSc (Strathclyde), BArch (Hons) (NUS), MSIA, Registered Architect (Singapore), BOA (Singapore)
Email: akilimem@nus.edu.sg
www.josephlimdesigns.com

Design Processes
Focusing on the derivation of bio- analogues in functional mechanisms in space defining structures
Small scale structures
• landscape integrated spatial structures
• facade/ roof elements as integral structures mitigating energy consumption
• educational and military structures

Transportable structures
• for deployment in needy rural communities,and urban contexts responding to emergent need

Expandable spaces from moving structural elements
• structural prototypes capable of effecting a change in spatial configuration from movement

Emergent housing and settlement issues resulting from rural-urban migration
• Kolkata
• Shenzhen

Rural settlement communities
• landscape integrated waste water treatment and farming processes

Environmental prototypes
• water and energy subsistent housing estates up to 500 pphA
• floating production units
• new technologies and impact on structural types
 

LOW Boon Liang
Senior Lecturer
MSc (Urban Design) (Pratt Institute, New York), BArch (Hons) (University of Singapore), Registered Architect (Singapore), MSIA
Email: akilowbl@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Urban patterns in Asia and general.

Research Interests
• Urban design processes and methods.
• Urban waterfronts with special interest in public access and regeneration.
• Formal qualities of urban waterfronts and impact of urban shifts.

Carlos Alberto MONTANA HOYOS 
Visiting Fellow
BA Industrial Design (Javeriana University, Bogota, Colombia), MA (Kobe Design University, Japan), PhD Candidate (KDU)
Email: akicam@nus.edu.sg 

Research Focus 
• Holistic approach to various design fields dealing with concept, graphics, space and product from the perspective of industrial design. 
• Emphasis in the creative, aesthetic, cultural, historical and sustainable aspects of design.

Research Interests 
• Industrial Design, Integrated Design , Visual Communication
• Design History, Cultural Identity & Handcrafts, Bio-Inspired Design, Sustainable Design, Visual Communication.

Md Mizanur Rashid
Visiting Fellow
Credentials: Ph.D. (continuing at NUS), M. Arch. in Human Settlement (KU Leuven, Belgium), B. Arch. (BUET, Bangladesh), MIAB
Email: akimmr@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Architectural history, Human settlement and Material culture

Research Interest
• Architectural History of South Asia.
• Culture, Tradition and Architecture.
• Urban transformation and the perceived image of the city
 

ONG Boon Lay
Senior Lecturer (Dr)
PhD (Cantab), MArch (Auck), BArch(Auck), MSIA, Registered Architect (Singapore)
Email: akiongbl@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• The role of plants in the making of place in architecture — a study of plants and architecture phenomenologically, aesthetically and environmentally.

Research Interests
• Plants and place in architecture.
• Thermal effects of plants on buildings. NUS funded project.
• Architecture as an ecological system.
• The nurtured landscape & Green Plot Ratio.
 

Tsuto SAKAMOTO
Assistant Professor
MS in Architecture (Columbia New York), ME in Architecture (Waseda Tokyo), BE (Tokyo University of Science)
Email: akits@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• "Modernity" in Japanese architecture.
• Visual theory in architecture.

Research Interests
• Kenzo Tange’s discourse on tradition.
• The Real in the Hiroshima Peace Center.
• Image and perception in the East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere.
• Memorial building.

Florian Benjamin SCHAETZ 
Visiting Fellow
Dipl. Arch. ETH/SBA
Email: akifbs@nus.edu.sg 

Research Focus 
• Constructing Architecture 
• New technologies and materiality in architecture 
• Design Methodology 

Research Interests 
• Architecture and perception 
• Architecture and film 
• Architecture and aesthetics 
• Architecture and atmosphere 

TAN Beng Kiang
Assistant Professor (Dr)
Doctor of Design (Harvard), MArch II (UCLA), BArch (Hons) (NUS), Registered Architect (Singapore), MSIA
Email: akitanbk@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Digital design.
• Immersive virtual visualization.
• Educational spaces.

Research Interests
• Virtual/Physical space.
• Digital design and fabrication.
• Design of tangible interfaces.
• Technology mediated spaces in urban design.
• Interactive buildings.
• Collaborative design process and virtual design studio.
• Augmented reality.
• Innovative workplaces.
• Sustainable architecture.
 

TEH Kem Jin
Associate Professor
MSc (Arch), BSc (Hons) (Belfast), MIFireE, Registered Architect (Singapore)
Email: akitehkj@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Fire safety in buildings - codes and implementation.
• Design education - curriculum development.

Research Interests
• Comprehensive text book on fire safety in buildings.
• Curriculum study and review for Master in Technological Design, Industrial Design (DTI).
• The Singapore Fire Code 1991 (Fire Safely Bureau Project). Completed.
• Passive Fire Safety Protection, a monograph. Completed.
• Studies on the Singapore, Australia and New Zealand Fire Codes. NUS funded project. Completed.
 

VIRAY, Erwin John
Assistant Professor (Dr)
Doctor of Engineering in Architecture, (University of Tokyo), Master of Engineering in Architecture, (Kyoto Institute of Technology), B.S. Arch (cum laude), (University of the Philippines)
Email: akiejsv@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus/ Interests
• Monographic study of contemporary architects and their works, for example, Herzog and De Meuron, SANAA, WOHA, W-architects, SE/SAsian Architects, Japanese architects, et al.
• Architecture design pedagogy.
• Beauty of materials: aesthetics of the senses.
• Discovery and description of places: exercises in perception.

TSE Swee Ling
Associate Professor
DipArch (PolySing), MSIA, APAM, RIBA, Registered Architect (Singapore & Malaysia)
Email: akitsesl@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Building technology such as architectural detailing, building skin and sustainable architecture for the tropics.
• Knowledge and pedagogy to strengthen my teaching in both design and architectural technology.

Research Interests
• The functions, constructability and aesthetic of architectural detailing and development.
• Sustainable architecture in the tropics.
• Documentation of proven architectural details in the tropics. NUS research project. Completed.
• Roof drainage (In conjunction with the Singapore Productivity & Standards Board (PSB). Completed.
• Micro architectural design in the tropics (published by Singapore Institute of Architects). Completed.
 

Johannes WIDODO
Associate Professor  (Dr)
Ph.D (U-Tokyo), M.Arch. (KU-Leuven), Ir. (Unpar), IAI (Institute of Architects of Indonesia), Registered Architect (Indonesia), mAAN, iNTA, IfoU, ICOMOS
Email: jwidodo@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• History & Theory of Architecture: focused on the links and layering process of the traditions of architecture in Southeast Asia, in relations to the study and production of architecture of this region, from the earliest times to the present.
• Architectural Morphology & Typology: focused on the built-forms in its totality of different layers (morphologic, sociologic, and philosophic) on different scale levels (from dwelling unit, urban segment, city, to region) transformed over historical periods (time). Architecture is analyzed by both synchronic and diachronic readings. The research is focused on the cities in Southeast Asian region.
• Architectural Conservation: focused on the issue of nurturing the identity of places in Asia and Pacific regions through preservation and conservation of built-heritages and empowerment of the community.

Research Interests
History & Theory of Architecture:
• International maritime trading and the formation of coastal settlements in Southeast Asia morphology and architecture from 1st to 2nd millenniums (Vernacular, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Chinese layers)
• Colonialism and urban developments in Southeast Asia around 17th-20th centuries (Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British, French layers)
• Asian modernity and modernization process in Asia from 15th century – present

Architectural Morphology & Typology:
• Tropical Architecture of Southeast Asia
• Morphology of Port Cities and coastal settlements in Southeast Asia
• Urban History, Morphology & Typology of Asian Cities (Continental and Maritime)
• Chinese Diaspora’s and Islamic Culture, Architecture and Urbanism in Southeast Asia
• Colonial and Modern Architecture and the City in Southeast Asia

Architectural Conservation:
• Conservation of Asia’s urban and architectural heritages
• Architectural conservation education and management

 

Stephen K. WITTKOPF
Associate Professor 
Dr.-Ing. (Darmstadt University of Technology), Post-Grad. Dipl. CAAD (ETH Zurich), Dipl.-Ing. Architect (RWTH Aachen)
Email: akiskw@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Building integrated Photovoltaic
• Advanced daylighting
• Computational simulation and visualization

Research Interests
• Solar Architecture, Sustainable Architecture • Design methods and assessment tools
 

WONG Chong Thai, Bobby
Associate Professor
MDesS (Harvard), DipArch (Aberd), MSIA, RIBA, Registered Architect (UK & Singapore)
Email: akiwct@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus/ Interests
• Modernity in the periphery with particular focus on East Asian region. Currently workiing on a Chinese architect Yang Ting-Bao.
• Asia focus studio – centered very much on the critical and marginal architecture in East Asia through studio design.
 

WONG Yunn Chii
Associate Professor (Dr)
PhD (MIT), March, AB BSCE (Washington University-St. Louis)
Email: akiwyc@nus.edu.sg


Research Focus
• Develop a historiography of modern Singapore architecture, and a theoretical-critical framework for interpreting contemporary practices.

Research Interests
• Industrial architecture and planning in Singapore. Completed.
• Visual database of modern Dutch tropical architecture in Indonesia. Completed.
• School buildings in use (NUS funded). Completed.
• Oral history approach for explicating modern buildings, architects, practices in Singapore.
• Aspects of institutional requirements (public safety, health, zoning, etc.) and professional discourse (style, theory, etc.) that contribute to the shape of Singapore buildings and landscape.
• Mass, popular culture and architecture.
• Transformation in the home environments and workspaces.
• Colonial physical legacies - urbanism and architecture, especially the “New Villages” in Malaya; plantations and infrastructural architecture.
• Industrial architecture and landscapes.
• Critical technological discourses in architecture.
• Iconography of materials.
• Study of high-density, high intensity environments.
• Social history through post card views.
 

YANG Pei-ju, Perry
Assistant Professor (Dr)
PhD. MSc (NTU TW), MS (MIT)
Email: akiyangp@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• Asian new downtowns.
• Ecologically sustainable design.
• Urban simulation.

Research Interests
• GIS-based design support system in tropical urban environment NUS funded project..
• Asian New Downtowns: Urban Transformation of Central City Areas in Singapore, Taipei and Shanghai. NUS funded project.
• Downtown urban design.
• Ecological effects of urban form.
• Design and planning of eco-industrial park.

YEN Ching-Chiuan
Assistant Professor (Dr)
PhD (UCE), MA (MMU), DesDip
Email: akiyc@nus.edu.sg

Research Focus
• ‘Pluralistic’ dimensions of design studies: to develop a research method for the accumulation of design theory/practice knowledge in practice.

Research Interests
• Cases design for the application of design management to consumer product & medical equipment design (Ministry of Education, Taiwan).
• The establishment of a 3-D whole body anthropometric data bank and data base management system with applications (NSC, Taiwan).
• Cognitive approach towards application of context effect to interface design (NSC, Taiwan).
• Comparative study of visual perceptions between real-world product and 3D simulation (NUS funded project).
• A study on the visual recognition with reference to the features of shape (National Science Council (NSC), Taiwan). Completed.
• A study of user-centered design on living environments within a welfare facility for the elderly (NSC, Taiwan). Completed.
• Testing and evaluation of assistive walker for cerebral palsy children (NSC, Taiwan). Completed.
• The influence of cultural form characteristic in relation to operational cognition (NSC, Taiwan). Completed.

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