(FULL) Archival 2021: Architect Feature Week ft. Prof Ar. Richard Ho

ARCHIVAL 2021
ArchiVAL is an annual exhibition showcasing selected works from students in NUS Architecture and Landscape Architecture courses from Year 1-5. The exhibition was held for 2 weeks from 10-23 December at the NUS School of Design and Environment in the newly built SDE 1 building.

ARCHITECT FEATURE WEEK
Launched as a video interview series, questions posed to our featured architects aimed to allow
students to gain a better understanding of the parts of architecture industry that are less
discussed. Our featured architects include Ar. Sanson Ng and Prof Ar. Richard Ho who were gracious and eager to share about their knowledge from their personal experiences.

BIO
Prof. Ar. Richard Ho
Founder of The Architecture Society (TAS)

Richard Ho graduated from the NUS School of Architecture in 1982 and worked for William S W Lim and Kerry Hill, both eminent Singapore architects, from 1982 to 1985 before venturing to Europe where he worked for six years with Helmut Schimek in Austria and Pritzker Prize laureate, Aldo Rossi in Italy. He returned to Singapore in Nov 1991 and set up RichardHO Architects.

He has been a registered architect with the Board of Architects since 1985. In the President’s Design Awards 2013, Richard was awarded the Designer of the Year 2013 – the most prestigious award conferred by the State to a design professional in Singapore. For the past twenty-nine years, Richard’s practice has won a number of international and local architecture awards - the Gold Medal in the ARCASIA (Architects Regional Council of Asia) Architecture Awards 2000, four URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority) Architectural Heritage Awards and seven SIA (Singapore Institute of Architects) Design Awards.

Since 1998, Richard has been teaching Architecture and Urban Design as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, NUS - he was appointed as Professor in Practice since 2015. He was the Founding President of The Architecture Society (TAS) in 1980 and is presently its Staff Advisor.