-Vikas Preamble I worry sometimes. That the urge to put out a message will undermine the opportunity to say something of importance. Maybe I don’t have stories to tell. Maybe all I have are a hundred and one ways of retelling the same story. Born after the fact 1984 did mean something after all. Besides… [Read more…]
March 29, 2011
-Alex Tan It was a foggy Saturday morning. Being lost on the road for about 2 hours, I finally see it in a distance. It floats above the low leafless grapevines in the cold, windy autumn. Its colors, a bright yellow, evoke a feeling of serenity. As I entered through the threshold, I saw a… [Read more…]
March 29, 2011
-Dawn Lim I believe this is a space where tutors and ex-students talk about how they became architects. So I am being kind of an antithesis here because I will be talking about how I did not. But more importantly, I will like to tell you why, by becoming an architect or otherwise, will not… [Read more…]
March 29, 2011
-Azhar & Gilbert A competition was called by the School of Architecture to give its existing Information Resource Library (IRC) a brand new look. Students, including ourselves, have regarded the IRC as the frequent data library and the “mugging” place during our pre-examination period. Serving as a physical search base for students inspiring to be… [Read more…]
March 10, 2011
PS Relating to how things aren’t new anymore…In your article “Singapore: The Fortress City” you used the anecdote of Frank Lloyd Wright and Okakura Kakozuo…concluding that “The future of architecture lies in a continuous search to understand existing ideas and the forces that influence them and to employ that understanding to solve problems for the… [Read more…]
March 10, 2011
PS After you graduated, you spent quite some time in Singapore with Kerry Hill Architects… RH and William Lim… PS How these experiences during your formative years as a young architect affect your practice? During the forum you commented that many students, after graduating, get lost in the woodwork. As students, I suppose we all… [Read more…]
March 10, 2011
PS What got you interested to be an architect? RH (inhales deeply) It’s a very long story you see…When I was doing my ‘A’ Levels, I was always drawing buildings. In those days, (when you did) your ‘A’ Levels, there was no college in my times. Every secondary school had a Pre-University; there was no… [Read more…]
March 9, 2011
-Thomas Wong “When you know, you just know.” A phrase I hear often which references to a multitude of things in life. Ask the faithful and they will tell you that there can be no other reason, other than knowing the feeling of being right. As it is with design and architecture, this gut feeling… [Read more…]
March 9, 2011
-Gabriel Tan Back in 2009, I saw a post on leading architectural and design blog www.dezeen.com featuring a series of work titled “Cozy Furniture” by young German designer, Hans Grebin. His works created polarized opinions on the message board and I noticed that after a few derogatory posts by readers who didn’t like the concept, “This… [Read more…]
March 9, 2011
-Wee Hao This project was a reaction to the concept of containment. Placed in slightly-larger-than-self containers, their visual sensations distorted by the refractions of light through the glass and water, life slowly drained of color to the preserving solution; a commonly-used technique of displaying wet collection in a museum paints a rather depressing yet… [Read more…]
March 9, 2011
-Jeff Chan There are always some risks involved in time travel — like going back in time to tell myself something I know now that I don’t know then. Indeed, unlike good philosophy — ‘I know that I know not’ — good architectural education has a tendency to impel a good student to know everything… [Read more…]
March 9, 2011
-Lilian Chee After reading so much about ‘architecture and everyday life’ in discourse throughout the years – a subject matter that reached its peak around the late 1990s and then gained some more mileage just recently – I feel compelled to still prod the subject in a way that is much more prosaic, if not,… [Read more…]
February 26, 2011
This is the plan. Over the course of 12 weeks (give or take), this was my primary medium of educational discussion with my tutor. I walked through the premeditated ruins of my own structure before constructing it, (don’t we all do?) in the minds of others. It was like an exam, except that I was… [Read more…]
February 26, 2011
Disclaimer: this following interview took place over the cyberspace. PS: What made you start FiveFootWay? Adib: I’ve always been on the look out for an architecture publication that was Asia-centric, relevant to the local context, with less glossy pictures and more exploratory in nature. Discussions would be made accessible and not left to the high-level… [Read more…]
February 25, 2011
-Fabian Fan “I am Kit Chen. I have many brothers and sisters. I am perpetually hungry, but always got the food last. I was angry, so I ate all of them. They did not die but live inside me. I grew so huge that I needed more than a pair of lungs to breathe. The… [Read more…]
February 25, 2011
-Lin Yanle I didn’t notice it at first glance. It is just a box. Clouded by trees. Hidden from one. Where do I approach it? Dwelled along the peripheral and wondered, if the entrance is the only one, the right one. The building dictates no entrance. Carefully, I intruded. The afternoon sun greeted me off… [Read more…]
March 29, 2011
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