Lilian Chee

National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture, Faculty Member

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I am an architectural theorist working on domestic spaces, affective discourse and gender issues.
Address: c/o Department of Architecture
School of Design and Environment
National University of Singapore
4 Architecture Drive
Singapore 117566

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Papers by Lilian Chee

Studio Culture as Competency

Ardeth, Dec 31, 2021

Housing and Domesticity

Architecture and Culture

Domesticity, Gender, and Architecture

Routledge eBooks, Jul 7, 2023

Introduction; Knowing Otherwise

Routledge eBooks, May 4, 2023

The Ruled and the Unruly

Routledge eBooks, May 4, 2023

The Sea, and the Sea

Routledge eBooks, May 4, 2023

Holes in the Ground

Routledge eBooks, May 4, 2023

Anarchiving Public Housing

Routledge eBooks, May 4, 2023

Keeping Cats, Hoarding Things

Routledge eBooks, May 4, 2023

Tracing the Last Tiger

Routledge eBooks, May 4, 2023

03-Flats

Routledge eBooks, May 4, 2023

After the Last Train

Routledge eBooks, May 4, 2023

Architecture and Affect

UNEARTHED : Surveys Of ‘ Ground ’ In The Heterotopic Chinese Grave

In the physical processes of reclamation and urban renewal in Singapore, ground can be seen as a ... more In the physical processes of reclamation and urban renewal in Singapore, ground can be seen as a geomorphic entity that is endlessly shaped in accordance to a nationalistic vision. However, when the Chinese burial grounds in Singapore are repossessed for new usage, a contestation ensues between the contradicting values of land as a national resource and the landscape as a cultural entity. This dissertation seeks to recast the Chinese burial grounds in Singapore as heterotopia, a Foucauldian space of ‘otherness’. It will do so by identifying the unique spatial configuration of the Chinese grave that is anomalous to its surrounding environment, proposing that this particular reading hinges on the politics of ‘ground’. It is therefore asserted that ground is a datum that has to be read in both its physical and symbolic potentialities. The Chinese grave is explored as a distinctive space arranged in accordance to strict topological laws of geomancy, inextricably connected to ‘real’ spac...

Reflections on, and from, Feminist Practice: Introduction to the ‘Home’ Special Issue

Australian Feminist Studies

Review: <i>The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture</i>

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Dec 1, 2022

Reimagining Domesticity in 03-FLATS

Intellect Books, Oct 17, 2019

Making history present

Site Situation Spectator, 16 May - 12 July 20096-

Unhousing sexuality: Sexuality and singlehood in Singapore's public housing

Sexuality and Gender at Home, 2020

Critic's Essay

Foundations: The Consolations of Museology15-2