People and Organisations.
There are no buildings without people and institutions. Many people and organisations are involved in shaping the modern built heritage of Singapore. Besides architects and designers, there are other individuals like builders, engineers, clients, patrons, writers, publicists, and advocates. Individuals often belong to different types of organisations. These organisations—both public and private—are key to the construction and destruction, maintenance and neglect of our modern built heritage. In this page, we celebrate those who have played important constructive roles in the past.
Do you see any significant individual(s) or organisation(s) missing from this list? Please let us know here.
Dr. Norman Edwards
Norman will be remembered with affection by former colleagues and students as a gentle, cultured man with endless patience, who was the academic pivot in the School at a time when it was going through major changes in the 1980s.
Eu Jin Seow
Dr. Eu Jin Seow was a pioneer architect and architectural historian of Singapore.
As with almost all pioneer architects who studied overseas, Seow came from a prominent family. His mother Tan Poh Li was Tan Tock Seng’s great-great granddaughter, and his father Seow Poh Leng was the General Manager of Ho Hong Bank, which later merged with two other banks to become Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation.