Current CDE students (postgraduates)

Poster for Department of Architecture's Building Community in the Tropics and Beyond event

DOA Symposium: Building / Community in the Tropics and Beyond

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The principle of site specificity has long guided most works of architecture, landscape architecture, and planning. Yet what the “site” means itself remains mutable and contested. Recent design scholarship and practice progressively turn to local, indigenous, and traditional ways of shaping environments as critiques of modernist legacies of uniformity and standardisation. Still, we must remain […]

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Mark Cutkosky Prototyping Seminar EDIC

Prototyping to Answer Critical Questions

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This seminar introduces Critical Function and Critical Experience Prototyping (CFP/CEP), core methods from Stanford’s ME310 course that guide design teams in answering focused questions throughout the development process. A CFP is a physical prototype built to test a specific function, while a CEP creates or simulates an experience to study user responses. Effective prototypes are

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CFI Symposium 2025

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The Coastal Protection and Flood Resilience Institute (CFI) Singapore’s Annual Symposium is back this September, serving as a key platform to unite thought leaders, researchers, policymakers, and industry partners in addressing the urgent challenges of coastal protection and flood management in a changing climate. Through dynamic discussions, knowledge sharing from external speakers, and collaborative engagement,

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