Eunice Seng
Eunice M. F. Seng (PhD, Columbia; MArch, Princeton; BAAS, NUS) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Departmental Research Postgraduate Committee (PhD Program Director) in Architecture at the University of Hong Kong; and Founding Principal of SKEW Collaborative. She is founding member of Docomomo HK, member of Asia Urban Lab, Singapore, and co-director of the Singapore Institute of Architects Archifest 2017. Her work explores interdisciplinary intersections, transnational connections, and agency in architecture, housing, domesticity, gender, labor, and public space.
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estate– to consider the shaping of domesticity and the entanglements
with nation building built upon the continual invention and maintenance of Singapore the garden city.
Architecture, in terms of building, is typically understood as a container of space and activities, as receptacles of memories and aspirations. It has been presented as a monument to an idea or an ideal, a symbol for a collective. The highly mediatized events, sociopolitical and economic shifts of the last decade have reinforced yet challenged these long-held notions of architecture and inadvertently impacted the practice and the education of the architect. Alongside increasing specialization of expertise and digitization of scopes of work, the collaborative nature of architectural practice have come to the fore. New multi-disciplinary practices have emerged, predicated on the energies of collaboration and networking in which architectural knowledge and design is crucial but not necessarily central. In advanced societies, architects, urban designers and planners grapple with the escalating cries of the people–often through interests groups and activists–for more engaging, meaningful and inclusive public spaces, while responding to state regulation on urban vigilance.
More than ever, architectural biennials, exhibitions and festivals have emphasized the city engagement with its citizenry. Who are the stakeholders of the architecture of building? How can stake-holding be more equitable in terms of the acknowledgements of intellectual and labor production? How can architecture be an agent for empowerment and dissemination without compromising on aesthetic and value? In conception, process, execution and sustainability, what is the agency and potential agencies of architecture? This festival is a platform to create a network of multiple stakeholders of the built environment–including government institutions, academies, architects, clients and patrons, NGOs, think tanks, individuals and user groups–to engage in meaningful conversations and creative co-production.
Yet a closer analysis of the multifarious programs, spatial adaptations and contestations within, reveals the human caprice that drives and defines the city. How did these tensions and everyday acts of resistance shape the spaces in the composite buildings and in turn, define and redefine the city? In examining the brief social history of a commonplace building in Hong Kong, this paper unpacks the tropes of the modern Asian metropolis to seek an alternative framework to understand the precarious limits between the urban and the domestic.
*For an expanded version of this essay, please refer to Ch4 - "Composites: The City in a Building," and Chp5 - "Narratives: Composite Building Studies," In Resistant City (WSP, 2020), 95-134.
utopian projects of Disney and Singapore — Island, Garden City, Housing, Leisure, Travel, and Technology — and the collective for whom they were constructed. Then, by seeking out six other spaces which emerged during the realization of these Cold War utopias, it aims to uncover alternative agencies and forms of power which undermine and reconfigure the original projects.
Through this analysis, the article demonstrates that despite the academic and ironic parallels between Disneyland and Singapore as totalizing spaces of consumption, Singapore remains a place whose inhabitants must practice everyday life. This work in progress therefore attempts to evaluate the island state beyond the totalitarian frame — as a sustainable place
imbued with political discourse, grappling with issues that confront all postindustrial cities."
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estate– to consider the shaping of domesticity and the entanglements
with nation building built upon the continual invention and maintenance of Singapore the garden city.
Architecture, in terms of building, is typically understood as a container of space and activities, as receptacles of memories and aspirations. It has been presented as a monument to an idea or an ideal, a symbol for a collective. The highly mediatized events, sociopolitical and economic shifts of the last decade have reinforced yet challenged these long-held notions of architecture and inadvertently impacted the practice and the education of the architect. Alongside increasing specialization of expertise and digitization of scopes of work, the collaborative nature of architectural practice have come to the fore. New multi-disciplinary practices have emerged, predicated on the energies of collaboration and networking in which architectural knowledge and design is crucial but not necessarily central. In advanced societies, architects, urban designers and planners grapple with the escalating cries of the people–often through interests groups and activists–for more engaging, meaningful and inclusive public spaces, while responding to state regulation on urban vigilance.
More than ever, architectural biennials, exhibitions and festivals have emphasized the city engagement with its citizenry. Who are the stakeholders of the architecture of building? How can stake-holding be more equitable in terms of the acknowledgements of intellectual and labor production? How can architecture be an agent for empowerment and dissemination without compromising on aesthetic and value? In conception, process, execution and sustainability, what is the agency and potential agencies of architecture? This festival is a platform to create a network of multiple stakeholders of the built environment–including government institutions, academies, architects, clients and patrons, NGOs, think tanks, individuals and user groups–to engage in meaningful conversations and creative co-production.
Yet a closer analysis of the multifarious programs, spatial adaptations and contestations within, reveals the human caprice that drives and defines the city. How did these tensions and everyday acts of resistance shape the spaces in the composite buildings and in turn, define and redefine the city? In examining the brief social history of a commonplace building in Hong Kong, this paper unpacks the tropes of the modern Asian metropolis to seek an alternative framework to understand the precarious limits between the urban and the domestic.
*For an expanded version of this essay, please refer to Ch4 - "Composites: The City in a Building," and Chp5 - "Narratives: Composite Building Studies," In Resistant City (WSP, 2020), 95-134.
utopian projects of Disney and Singapore — Island, Garden City, Housing, Leisure, Travel, and Technology — and the collective for whom they were constructed. Then, by seeking out six other spaces which emerged during the realization of these Cold War utopias, it aims to uncover alternative agencies and forms of power which undermine and reconfigure the original projects.
Through this analysis, the article demonstrates that despite the academic and ironic parallels between Disneyland and Singapore as totalizing spaces of consumption, Singapore remains a place whose inhabitants must practice everyday life. This work in progress therefore attempts to evaluate the island state beyond the totalitarian frame — as a sustainable place
imbued with political discourse, grappling with issues that confront all postindustrial cities."
Experiments in architectural education in the post–World War II era that challenged and transformed architectural discourse and practice.
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This interdisciplinary volume explores real and invented places and identities that are created in tandem with Hong Kong's urban development. Mapping contested spaces in the territory, it visualizes the energies and tenacity of the people as manifest in their daily life, social and professional networks and the urban spaces in which they inhabit. Embodying the multifaceted nature of the Asian metropolis, the book utilizes a combination of archival materials, public data sources, field observations and documentation, analytical drawings, models, and maps.
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As a socio-political microcosm, Hong Kong has been dealing with the impact of hyper-dense urban environments since the mid-twentieth century. Over the past three decades, the city has also been an active player in the development of China’s housing sector through various public and private initiatives. This poses some pertinent questions, including a consideration of what models are at hand for China’s housing sector and whether Hong Kong is in fact the right model. What are alternative options for housing? How can architects and academics make a difference through critical review and proposition?
Architectural institutions are reviewing modes of learning and practice of architecture to reflect the changing professional landscape. Schools confront the ever-acute tensions between critical thinking and the market. The training of architects who will likely be working in different contexts requires new frames of reference and paradigms. What competencies should the practitioner of architecture possess to bridge technical and managerial specializations in light of competitiveness and nuances of culture? How do the practices and performances of the profession take into account the hybrids and collaborations that define the broad scope of projects? The dilemma of competency lies in the rigorous study of the conditions and processes of architecture, configuring and situating skills and capabilities.
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