ON MODERN ASIAN DESIGN THINKING

 

This e-book is a pictorial narrative of Tay Kheng Soon's journey as an Architect-Activist-Educator. It starts with his ruminations on epistemology, adventure, civic activism, maturing process, and then the outcomes.

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Publication Date

Apr 29, 2022

Language

English

Category

Art & Photography

Copyright

All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License

Contributors

By (author): Kheng Soon Tay

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EPUB                                                

The ebook was written by Singapore's foremost thinker and visionary, Tay Kheng Soon, simple to read and easy to understand, consisting of slightly more than 400 pages of text and images. Can be purchased online here.

Here are some sample pages. 

Here is one page of advice for a would-be or aspiring architect. 

Inside the ebook, there are many links to videos of interviews and Kheng Soon's designs. See one here on Enterprise Campus.

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The ebook was designed to be read on Mobile and the font can be adjusted according to one's preference. it is done in ePub format for ease of reader's preference. However, some Android may not present the text and photographs well. Here is a version in PDF format. 

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Here are some sample pages.

Original sketches by Tay Kheng Soon.

We always ask, 'What is Modern, what is Modernism, and what is being Modern that is relevant to us?' Here is one answer by Kheng Soon. 

Aesthetics is the topic artists and architects have to dwell on deeply. Perhaps, here in his book, we can have some answers, he elaborated on the way he sees it.

Other than Archhitecture, he is a scout leader, and an avid one. 

He was happy to have received his accolade from the professional society, the Gold Medal. 

His Fine Art Centre design as an architectural student was exhibited and shown to Dr. Toh Chin Chye. 

The Question of Identity is an issue that he confronted. His is one that weighed heavily on the geography and culture in which he grew up. 

Some history of SPUR, a Planning organization, in which Kheng Soon was actively involved, that had made an impact was defunct after some time. A good recap of history perhaps.

Mega architecture, those were the days of brutalism and the search for a new architectural form for the newly independent and industrialized. Who was not influenced by Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus? I see some glimpse of their influences. The power of rawness and gutsiness. 

There are many more exciting stories to unravel and learned. 

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