NAFA MA(spatial design) Innovation & Technology

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Philosophy

1. Truth,Beauty & Goodness

2. The City of Bits

Motivation 

3. Creative Visualization - from imagination to reality

Assignments website

4. Emergent materials for the Tropics

Singapore news & issues

5. Asiaone

World news

6. Google News 

Phenomenology book reference

7. The Poetics of Space

Online dictionary

8. The free dictionary 

Online encyclopedia

9. Wikipedia

 

 

 

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10.06.2006. There will be a series of very interesting documentaries on science and technological issues starting this Sunday at 7.30pm on CNA. Click on the link to see program details - http://www.channelnewsasia.com/documentary/list.htm. Repeat telecasts on the following Sats at 1pm. Do catch them if you can as this will help with your assignments!

14.06.2006. For those of you who would like to have a field trip to experience the 1st 4D cinema in Singapore. Check out this link - http://www.sentosa4dmagix.com.sg/index1.htm. Prices can go down to $12 if there are more than 20 students going. You can find out if the BA students are interested. The lecturer of arts management from SPA is keen on having a join tour with us to the 4D cinema.

20.06.2006. There will be a tour of the New Majestic Hotel and Hotel 1929 on Thursday, 22.06.2006 at 3.30pm with the BA and UK students. Meet at Hotel 1929 Keong Saik Street at 3.30pm MA students are most welcomed.

20.06.2006. BA students are invited to a dinner-cum chat with well-known Chinatown blogger, Victor Yue and fellow Chinatown resident tommorrow at 6.30pm in Chinatown (21.06.2006). Victor’s blog on Chinatown can be viewed here. MA students are most welcomed.

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Born in 1971, Kent K.W. Neo has been practicing as an architect since late 1990’s after graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture from the National University of Singapore. It was after his working stints in China that he realised the importance of understanding one’s cultural identity amidst the avalanche of international influences.

In 2003, Kent took a break to pursue a Master’s degree in Architectural Design, specialising in digital media at the University of Adelaide. He began experimenting on a series of digital improvisations on Toko Shinoda’s calligraphic grammars. He was also interested in developing a non-Euclidean design language for urban objects.

With the execution of ‘Softstroke Series’ in 2004, Kent documented his entire research on designing non-standard forms in digital media in a paper entitled ‘AARI–Analysis, Abstraction, Re-Invention and Integration’. With a new perspective introduced by Neo in the design methodology of Non-Standard Architectures, he was invited to present his findings at the prestigious DCC conference at MIT in 2004. Based on the AARI methodology, ‘Strokehouse_01′ was completed in 2004. The design was based on a liveable house conceived in a continuous digital brush stroke.

Kent graduated with a Master of Architecture (Digital Media) in 2004 with high distinctions from the University of Adelaide. Upon his return to Singapore, he continued working on the ‘Softstroke Series’ whilst practicing as a design and visualization architect with reknowned  architect Mr Tay Kheng Soon from Akitek Tenggara. Kent joint Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts shortly after his first solo exhibition on digital art and architecture in September 2005. Kent is presently a full-time lecturer at Nanyang of Academy of Fine Arts experimenting on design and visualisation methodologies for the diploma, degree and masters programme in various disciplines of Interior Design. In particular, Kent hopes that the prevailing artistic culture in the academy will culminate into a new movement in art, design and architecture in Singapore and the region.

Links:

Past solo exhibition

Online gallery of Calligraphic Architecture

Research on Chinese Historical Architecture in Singapore

Research Interests:

Chinese heritage and identity in Singapore

Creative issues in Singapore

Metholodogies in digital art and architecture

Self-sustainable house design 

Database of emergent materials for the built-environment in the tropical regions

Metaphor & Design/Calligraphic Architecture (PHD)

Exhibitions

2nd solo exhibition in mid-2008 - exposition of ‘Strokecity’ font, Visions of Stroke architecture integrated with the Urban fabric, Fabrication of ‘Strokechair’