NUS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Department of Architecture
College of Design and Engineering
National University of Singapore
4 Architecture Drive
Singapore 117566
Chief Editor
Hwang Yun Hye
Editorial Assistant
Shruthakeerthi Karthikeyan
Technical Editor
Dr. Victoria Jane Marshall
Graphic Designer
Studio Vanessa Ban
© National University of Singapore, 2023-2024
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Title: Landscape @ NUS (AY2024-25)
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A Year in Review
Planting Days
Public Lectures
Demolition and Reconstruction: Balancing Growth and Building with Nature – Anton Siura
Drifting Bodies: Entangled Stories of Sand, Water, Stone and People –Jingru (Cyan) Cheng & Chen Zhan
Entangled Histories: Albizias and the Making of New Ecologies – Robert Zhao
Way Beyond Bigness: The Need for a Watershed Architecture – Derek Hoeferlin and Duong Van Ni
Exhibitions
NUS Landscape Architecture Graduation Exhibition 2025
Singapore Design Week
Book Launch: Periurban Cartographies by Victoria Jane Marshall
Awards and Honours
SILA Student Design Award
ASLA Student Awards
Lay of the Land: Design Experiments
Sensing Landscape
Experiential Landscapes
(mis)Reading & (re)Writing The Site
Common Corridor
Two Good Minutes
Industrial Ecologies: Infrastructure & Urban Design for Industrial Estates in Singapore
Fifth Nature: Co-designing Singapore’s future urban form from nature-society ecologies and reserve lands/seas
Rebooting Pearl’s Hill: Computational and AI Driven Studio
Patterns and Functions in Landscapes: Prototyping Neighbourhood Landscapes in a Densifying Hong Kong
Kolkata: Periurban, Post Rural and Rural Intensification
The Singapore Islands: Redefining Southern and Western Islands
Re-envisioning the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park
Post Mega Games: Tokyo Studio
Design Thesis
Generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) Enabled Participatory Design
The Afterlife of Metals: Reimagining E-Waste as Landscape Potential
Designing with Change: Strategies for Climate Adaptive Coastline Management in Bali
Thermal Comfort-Oriented Street Space Redesign Centered on Food Delivery Workers in Lujiazui, Shanghai
Protecting Hutong Culture in Nanluoguxiang: Finding a Balance Between Commercialization
and Museumification
Let The Evolving Land Save Bangkok Bay: The Transformation of Marginalized Land of Large Coastal Cities in Asia Dominated by Climate Change
Exploring the Impact of Visual Elements on Perceived Outdoor Thermal Comfort
Research and Practice on the Development of Urban Psycho-Boundaries From Ancient
Feng Shui Theories to New Elements of Modern Cities (Using the Metro as an Example)
Cyborg Oasis: A Post-Human Wonderland