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Chee-Kien Lai

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Chee Kien is an architectural and urban historian, and the Vice President of the Society of Architectural and Urban Historians of Asia. He is a registered architect in Singapore, and graduated with a PhD in History of Architecture & Urban Design from UC Berkeley in 2005. His publications include Building Merdeka: Independence Architecture in Kuala Lumpur (2007), Building Memories: People, Architecture, Independence (2016) [Book of the Year, Singapore], The Merdeka Interviews: Architects, Engineers and Artists of Malaysia’s Independence (2018, co-authored), Singapore Chronicles: Architecture (2019), Early Hawkers of Singapore: 1920s and 1930s (2020), and Cords to Histories: Life and Architecture in Southeast Asia (2021).

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