Friday 21 January 2022

Update:

Hi, All! It's been some time :) 

I've been busy on the teaching and learning front.

I'm into my 4th teaching year in University of Technology Sarawak. My stint here will close at the end of August 2022. It's been fulfilling - challenging yet fun. 

The main happening in 2021 was the finishing of my PhD for submission a few days ahead of the deadline in September. It was the culmination of 3.5 months of daily writing for 10 hours, 6 days a week. I thank God for sustaining me through that period!

The viva voce was a blast! 

It was awesome having Kathleen Adams, internationally renown anthropologist, as Examiner 1 and Poline Bala, top Kelabit scholar in the world, as Examiner 2. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, head researcher of Social Science and Leisure Management from Taylor's University, completed the panel of examiners.     

It was wonderful when they announced that it was a pass with minor modifications! 

This forthcoming semester starting 21 Feb 2022 in UTS I shall teach History & Theory of Architecture II (again) & Architectural Practice to the undergraduates, and Design Thesis II to the Master's graduating cohort. 

It should be exciting, too, as my 3 M Arch students are looking at 

  • cynosure and orangutan preferences
  • drone transportation
  • the development of freedom in Malaysia. 

I'll be researching and writing a few papers on the side. Reviewing for international journals has lately come in as a fun thing to do, too. 

Roll on, 2022!

Friday 13 November 2020

House for Fernando Pessoa by Filipe Paixao, Portugal: Building as landscape

https://nickkahler.tumblr.com/image/70522485737

Story and more pics in

https://www.designboom.com/architecture/house-for-fernando-pessoa-and-his-heteronyms-by-filipe-paixao/

Time Patch 2013-2020

View from the top of Prayer Mountain, Bario, 2020.02.07

So, the missing time patch is
Apr 2014 - Aug 2018: in Selangor, West Malaysia
Jan 2018: commenced PhD studies (Taylor's University)
Sep 2018 - Present: in Sarawak, East Malaysia

Watch this space for more!

It's been some time, I've been busy teaching at the University of Auckland, 
Unitec Institute of Technology and Taylor's University.


Parti for Thesis Design by Joanna Wong, University of Auckland.

Extracting the essence : a 'back to basics' approach to church architecture (Wong, J R, 2012)

Supervised by Ian Ng


Wednesday 2 October 2013

Sunday 15 September 2013

Appreciating the Coromandel Highlands

Some pics from a trip to the Coromandel, North Island, New Zealand with Unitec 1st Yr students.



 
 








Tuesday 20 August 2013

Sited at Karekare

Students at the Unitec School of Architecture will be pondering the question, 'How does a site generate architecture?' for the rest of this semester. Following are views from our site visit yesterday.












Saturday 17 August 2013

Church Hall, West Auckland



















Construction of this church hall in West Auckland was completed for handover on 9 August 2013. It was a pleasure to project manage it from start, 28 Feb 2013, to finish.


(Design & Build Contractor: Econobuilt, Auckland)

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Monday 3 June 2013

Fitting the New into Old

A confident conversation with heritage in contemporary times: Heeren Shophouse, Malacca, Malaysia, by SCDA Architects, Singapore.


(more available here: http://archidose.org/wp/2003/12/15/malacca-house/)

Thanks to the 3 website sources.

Saturday 13 April 2013

1st Yr Students @ Unitec


Works in progress of my students on the 1st Yr Architecture Course can be viewed here. Comments are greatly valued. Thanks.

(Pic: Klecksograph by Daniel Lovelace)

Present Activity



Besides teaching architecture in Auckland I'm also administering the contract
for the construction of a church hall in one of her suburbs.


An architect can't really stay away from concreting for too long.

Tuesday 13 November 2012

Studio 3 Rocks!

....and so they sail thru 5th Year! Well Done Students of Taylor's University (Studio 3, Jan 2008)!

(Pic credit: Gordon Chu, with thanks:)