CHEAH Kok Ming
Associate Professor|Deputy Head (Academic) (Educator Track)
Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566.
- TEL:
- (65) 6516 3455
- FAX:
- (65) 6779 3078
- EMAIL:
- akickm@nus.edu.sg
Architectural education for Kok Ming is developing in students the ability to ask the right questions, research for the understanding to inform the appropriate architectural actions. Form follows enquiry. His design studio is enquiry-led and research-informed, interested in architectural inventions that address high yield on a small land footprint and future-proofing challenges.
He curates the Construe & Construct lecture series that examine the tropical designs of emerging architectural practices, setting a platform to investigate the idea of Tropical Tectonics – the articulation of structure, skin and space in the tropical climate and its context.
Kok Ming holds the Outstanding Educator Award, the university’s highest teaching accolade. He has served as the Deputy Head (Academic) as well as the Vice Dean (Academic) of the School of Design & Environment. He is currently the Assistant Dean in the College of Design & Engineering. He is a registered architect and a member of the Board of Architects, Singapore. He is a NUS Alumnus.
His key architectural works when he was with the Public Works Department included the Institute of South East Asian Studies which contributed discourse on tropical architecture in several books. The conversion of the Empress Place Building to Asian Civilization Museum won the Architectural Heritage Award in 2003. He pioneered buildable design strategies for the construction of schools and won the BCA Best Buildable Project in 1995.
