This is a blog site for Students of Visionary architects Tay Kheng Soon. It is a reflection of their learning process and their present practice. It is also a collection of ideas and thoughts about architecture, urban planning, and urban strategy.
Tay Kheng Soon, born in 1940, is a practicing architect and former adjunct professor at
National University of Singapore Architecture School. He was president of the
Singapore Institute of Architects from 1990-1993 and founding member and
chairman of SPUR (Singapore Planning and Urban Research) from 1970 to 1971. He graduated from the School of Architecture (present Singapore Polytechnic) in 1964 and is
currently undertaking fundamental design research about Rubanisation.
He is a public intellectual who held many visionary views on the built environment and urban planning.
JASON ANG KWANG LIN
Jason Ang, a Singaporean that has practiced architecture, urban design, and master planning for the past 25 years. The last 20 years of his practice was in the People’s Republic of China with the majority of the projects being large-scale architecture, urban planning, and design of cities. His private practice has since completed more than 150 projects that spanned an area of more than 1000km2.
He is interested in the idea of a vibrant, sustainable and diverse city, Jason has embarked on the study and method of creating interactive places since his university days. He has developed a land value indexing system and has applied it, together with the interactive place methodology, to his architecture, urban design, and planning projects. In today’s high-speed techno-driven world, citizenry disconnecting with nature and socio-reality is inextricable. Jason hopes that his vision for public places being interactive and contextual niches of choice and activities can recoup the lost interest we have in many of our fragmented and gentrified cities; in short, every citizen should have a choice and place in the city.
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Jan Lim (class of 2011) |
Jan Lim (class of 2011) is Co-founder and Director of Research and Strategy at Participate in Design (P!D), a Singapore-based non-profit organisation that implements and advocates a community-driven, participatory approach to design and planning. She developed her interests in community building, design justice, and democratic decision-making during her time reading architecture at the National University of Singapore, and was a student and former intern of Tay Kheng Soon between 2009 and 2011. Her curiosity about human-centric design processes led her to join the Experience Design studio at ONG&ONG, before building up P!D from 2013 to pursue her vision of empowering local residents to influence spatial outcomes. She is currently pursuing her PhD research on the socio-politics of public participation in planning at KU Leuven, Belgium, with the aim of gaining insights that can inform urban governance processes in Singapore.