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During a career spanning over three decades, award-winning architect Mok Wei Wei has designed numerous large- and small-scale projects in Singapore with his practice W Architects. From apartment complexes and museums to houses and community centres, each project reveals the architect's key inspirations and ingenious solutions to the challenges of building in the tropical city-stage. The works are presented in three themed chapters - Refract, Respond, Reflect - and move through Mok Wei Wei's career from the early 1980s to the present. In our increasingly urban world, W Architects illustrates a unique approach to designing buildings for a dense city environment, working in the context of a diverse multicultural society facing up to the challenges of climate, heritage preservation, globalism and national identity.
With 594 illustrations, 296 in colour
Contents
Introduction: 'Totally Contextual': The Architecture of Mok Wei Wei by Jiat-Hwee Chang • 1. Refract: In Search of Fundamentals • 2. Respond: Contextualism in a Constricting Environment • 3. Reflect: Negotiating Spatial Cultures in a Global City State • 'Architecture of the West and the East refracted through an Architect in Singapore' by Leon van Schaik
