PERSONAL PARTICULARS Name: Dr Hee Limin Nationality: Singaporean EDUCATION Doctor of Design (DDes) Harvard University M.A. (Architecture) National University of Singapore B.Arch. (Hons) National University of Singapore B.A. (Arch) National University of Singapore PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2008 - current Assistant Professor, joint appointment with Asian Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore and Department of Architecture, NUS 2005 - current Leader, Urban Studies Group, Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, Coordinating research and teaching programs, strategic planning of research projects, and organizing conferences, workshops and publications within the Department of Architecture. 2005 - current Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, NUS Also: Coordinator and Design Tutor, BAArch Year Four Program M.Arch Thesis Supervisor Dissertation Supervisor, Higher Degrees 2005-2006 Program Facilitator, University Scholars Program, NUS - 2005 Guest Critic, Department of Architecture, Harvard University Teaching Assistant, Executive Education Program, Harvard University 2003 - Teaching Fellow, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University 2002-2005 Overseas Graduate Scholarship 1998-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, NUS Also: Coordinator, BAArch Foundation Program 1997-1998 Lecturer, Department of Architecture, NUS 1
CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE OR SERVICES RENDERED CPG Consultants Singapore (formerly PWD Singapore) 1994-1997 Executive Architect: Jamiyah Home for the Aged (Tampines New Town); Jurong Boys' Complex; Conversion of Old Hill Street Police Station to Ministry of Information and the Arts Headquarters; Promenade and footbridge at S'pore River & commuter amenities for Land Transport Authority, Singapore 1990-1994 Architect: Raffles Girls' School; Bartley Secondary School; Commonwealth Secondary School; New National Library (unbuilt); pilot project design for full precast school at Siglap EDITORIAL & EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND BOOK SERIES Subject editor (with Schroepfer, T.) Facades: Principles of Construction, Ulrich Knaack, et al (authors) Basel: Birkhäuser 2006 - current Editor Folio 07, Folio 08 & Folio 09: Documents of the Department of Architecture, NUS Singapore: NUS, Department of Architecture 2001-2002 Singapore Architect, Singapore Institute of Architects, issues 211 and 214 Singapore OFFICIAL POSITIONS HELD IN ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 2009 - Member, International Scientific Committee, The Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR), Jordan 2005-2006 Council Member, Singapore Institute of Architects 2000-2002 Examiner, Professional Examinations, Board of Architects Singapore 1994 - current Registered Architect, Board of Architects, Singapore, 1998-2002 Honorary Secretary, Architecture Alumni Association, Singapore, CONFERENCES ORGANISED WHILE AT ARI by title, venue & collaborators 13 February 2009 Constructing Sustainability: Ethics, Techniques or Aesthetics? Organizer and converner; jointly organized by Sustainable Cities cluster (ARI), School of Design and Environment and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 2
5-7 Dec 2008 GASS 5 (Great Asian Street Symposium): Future Asian Space Co-chair and Organizing committee; jointly organized by Asian Cities Cluster, Asia Research Institute with the Department of Architecture, NUS 15 Mar 2008 Urban Asian Emergence: The Environmental Challenge Organizing committee and discussant; jointly organized by Asian Cities Cluster, Asia Research Institute with the Urban Studies Group, Department of Architecture, NUS, held at WOHA Gallery, Singapore KEYNOTES AND PLENARIES by title, venue & organizers *25 September 2008 Invited plenary paper (sponsored), Urban Planning and Design in Singapore, International Symposium on The New Urban Design and Creative City at Chungbuk Chungbuk Research Institute, South Korea RESEARCH PROJECTS / PROGRAMMES / INITIATIVES & COLLABORATIONS As Principal Investigator: *March 2009-2011 Planning and Development for Sustainable High Density Living (Urban Space Planning for Sustainable High Density Environments) Research to derive possible new configurations of urban public spaces that are integrative with high-density typologies, are environmentally considered, and have the potential to be socially adapted to become vibrant public spaces Funded by the Ministry of National Development, Singapore: $ 428,244 Collaborators: Heng Chye Kiang, Erwin Viray, Davisi Boontharm (NUS) October 2006 - September 2008 Water Margins (I) Interdisciplinary research on developments in Asian waterfront cities, in collaboration with Technical University of Delft Funded by the National University of Singapore: $ 81,610 Collaborators: Low Boon Liang, Erwin Viray, Heng Chye Kiang (NUS); Ooi Giok Ling (NIE/IPS) and Han Meyer (Technical University of Delft). November 2000 - September 2003 Design, Use and Social Significance of Public Space in Housing Research on design of public spaces in housing in Singapore and Hong Kong, in collaboration with the Chinese University, Hong Kong, and the Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore Funded by the National University of Singapore: $32,076 Collaborators: Ooi Giok Ling (Dr), Senior Researcher, Institute of Policy Studies; Tsou Jin Yeu (Dr), Professor, The Chinese University Hong Kong; GASS 2 (Public Space) was held in relation to the completion of the project. As Collaborator: 2006-2008 TransUrban charting experiments for the city of the future Inter-disciplinary research on design ideals, ideas, and processes of current sustainable developments, in collaboration with Harvard University Funded by GSD, Harvard University 3
TEACHING, STUDENTS SUPERVISION For teaching (AY -08 Department of Architecture): AR 5103 Architectural Design Thesis AR 4101 & AR 4102 Architectural Design AR 5141 Dissertation UD 5221 Theory and Elements of Urban Design AR5770/6770 Research Methodology 2 (Part) For supervision (Department of Architecture): As Supervisor, Graduate Student Fellowships MA(Arch) Graduate Research Scholarship (Nanxi Su, 2006-2008 Rise and Impacts of Art Factories in Shanghai) MA(Arch) Graduate Research Scholarship (Zravko Trivic, 2006-2009) As Thesis Examiner, Graduate Student Fellowships Li Ze, Ph.D in Urban Studies, -08 Urban Redevelopment in Changshoujie Shanghai: An Institutional Analysis Zhang Tianjie -08 Building Citizens for Nationalist China: Municipal Parks and Parkways in Wuhan, 1927-1937 Lu Mingyu in Urban Studies, 2009-10 PUBLICATIONS Authored Book and Monograph Forthcoming 2009 *(with Schroepfer, T. and Werthmann, C.) Transurban Charting experiments for cities of the future - Case Study 02: solarcity Linz, Design and Technology Report Series 2009, Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard Graduate School of Design (with Schroepfer, T. and Werthmann, C.) TransUrban Charting experiments for cities of the future - Case Study 01: Vauban, Design and Technology Report Series 3,, Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard Graduate School of Design. Edited Book (with Schroepfer, T.) (subject eds.) Facades: Principles of Construction, Ulrich Knaack, et al (authors),, Basel: Birkhäuser. 2006-2008 Folio 07 & Folio 08: Documents of the Department of Architecture, NUS, 2006-2008, Singapore: NUS, Department of Architecture. Book Chapter Forthcoming 2009 * Singapore s Public Housing Spaces: Alter native Spaces in Transition in Butcher, M. Velayutham (eds.) 2009 The Politics of Resistance in Asia s Transforming Cities, New York, London: Routledge 4
2008 Creating New Civic Realms in a Global City-State in Globalization, the City and the Rise of Civil in Pacific Asia, Douglass, M et al (eds.), 2008, New York, London: Routledge. (with Heng C.K.) "Transformations of Space: Public Housing in Singapore" in Suburban Form: An International Perspective, Stanilov, K. and Scheer, B. (eds.), University of Cincinnati, USA. London: Routledge. Refereed Article Journals 2008 *(with Schroepfer T., Su, N., and Li, Z.) From Post-Industrial Landscapes to Creative Precincts Emerging Spaces in Chinese Cities International Development and Planning Review, Issue 30, no. 3, 2008, UK, pp. 249-266 *(with Schroepfer, T) Emerging Forms of Sustainable Urbanism: Case Studies of Vauban Freiburg and solarcity Linz Journal of Green Building, Vol. 3 No. 2 Spring 2008, USA Rethinking Shanghai s Urban Housing Urban Design International () 12, pp. 131-142, Dec, Palgrave Macmillan, UK. 2006 Book Review: Architourism Journal of Architectural Education, Issue 60 No. 1, Sept 2006. 2005 Orchard Road as Conduit: Between Nostalgia and Authenticity Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, Fall 2005. Refereed Conferences 2008 * The Yokohama MM21 Model for Developments in Post-Industrial Waterfronts, Coastal Cities Summit 2008, Values and Vulnerabilities, Nov 17-20 2008, St. Petersburg, Fl., USA. (with Schroepfer, T.) Emerging Forms of Sustainable Urbanism: Case Studies of Vauban Freiburg and solarcity Linz 96 th Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meeting, 27-30 Mar 08, Houston, TX, USA. (with Li, Z. and Schroepfer, T.) China s New Creative Culture in the Post-industrial Landscape: Emergent Space in the City, International Convention of Asian Scholars: Sharing a Future in Asia, Aug 2-5, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Civic Spaces in a Global City-state Asian Coalition on Architecture and Urbanism (ACAU) Workshop, 1-10 July, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2006 Little India: Spaces of Ethnicity, Exchange and Boundedness 10 th International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) Dec 15-18 2006 Bangkok, Thailand. 5
(with Tee J.J.) The Cultural Roles of Urban Waterfronts in Asia 4 th Symposium (GASS) Dec 6-8 2006, Singapore. Great Asian Streets Rethinking Shanghai s Urban Housing 1 st (FUIUF), 2-5 Nov 2006 Shanghai. Fudan University International Urban Forum 2005 (with Tsou J.Y. Ooi G.L.) Design, Use and Social Significance of Public Space in Public Housing: A Comparative Study of Singapore and Hong Kong 5 th China Urban Housing Conference, Nov 24-26 2005, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR. Orchard Road as Conduit: Between Nostalgia and Authenticity 9 th International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Dec 14-18, Sharjah, UAE. Working Paper Series 2006 Little India: Spaces of Ethnicity, Exchange and Boundedness International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments: Traditional Dwellings and Settlement Review Working Paper Series (WPS) 2006, no. 194 - The Production of Space and Identities, Series Editor: Nezar AlSayyad, UC Berkeley Press, USA. Working Paper Orchard Road as Conduit: Between Nostalgia and Authenticity -2005 Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series (WPS),, UC Berkeley Press, USA. ANY OTHER INFORMATION Design Competitions: : Evolo Housing Design Competition 07 White Box,- Framework for Customization Housing Design honorable mention, with Luther Seet, Siow Zhixiang and Daniel Wong, New York, NY, USA IKEA Wohnen in der Zukunft Wettbewerb Design and ideas competition, finalist, with Thomas Schroepfer and Christian Werthmann, Munich, Germany 2006: Harvard Vision 2020 A Walk in the Yard, ideas competition, jury selection, joint competition entry with Thomas Schroepfer, 2006, selected (one of 20 best entries) for publication at Harvard University, Harvard Vision 2020, a publication of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, Cambridge, MA 2003: Designing the Highline Competition The Highline as a Place of Repose, international design competition, jury selection (citation), New York, NY, 2003, joint competition entry with Thomas Schroepfer Exhibitions: : Fundacion Metropoli, Madrid, Spain TransUrban: Charting Experiments for Cities of the Future, August 25-October 25,, supported by Fundacion Metropoli, Spain and Harvard GSD External Relations 6
SPACE Gallery, Seoul, Korea TransUrban: Charting Experiments for Cities of the Future, July 5 - August 2,, supported by Harvard GSD External Relations, Urban Design Institute of Korea, and Goethe-Institut Korea Hong Kong Institute of Architects, Hong Kong, China TransUrban: Charting Experiments for Cities of the Future, July 5 - August 2,, supported by Harvard GSD External Relations, Goethe-Institut Hong Kong Tsinghua University, Beijing, China TransUrban: Charting Experiments for Cities of the Future, supported by Harvard GSD External Relations, and Goethe-Institut Beijing July 5 - August 2, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore TransUrban: Charting Experiments for Cities of the Future, supported by Harvard GSD External Relations, Singapore Institute of Architects, and Goethe-Institut Singapore, July 5 - August 2, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA, USA TransUrban: Charting Experiments for Cities of the Future, July 5 - August 2, 2006: The Singapore Institute of Architects, Singapore, 9-22 June, Exhibition of Studio Projects, Re-thinking Shanghai s Urban Housing 2006 The exhibition showcased the works of the second semester housing studio of 12 BAArch graduating students, Studio master: Limin Hee, Department of Architecture, the National University of Singapore 7