“What is important is the dersire to create organised and controlled spaces appropriate to the tropics that can affect the human spirit.”

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Mr Chan Soo Khian is the founding principal and design director of SCDA Architects, which he established in 1995. SCDA has major commercial residential and master planning projects in South-East Asia, China, India, the Middle East, Europe, North Africa and the United States.

The firm’s numerous honours include the Royal Institute of Architects’ Worldwide Award (2005), the Gold Award at the Miami Biennale 2005 International Competition, the Gold Award for the Arcasia Awards for Architecture (2005-2006), the Chicago Athenaeum 2006 and 2007 International Architecture Awards and the Honourable Mention in the 2007 Kennet F Brown Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Design Award.

Mr Chan has taught and conducted seminars at the National University of Singapore, was a visiting professor at Syracuse University, and has lectured at the Paris Belleville School, French Society for Architecture, Notre Dame University, School of Architecture in Indiana and Tamkan University in Tamsui, Taipei.

The firm’s work has been published extensively in international books and journals, including Architecture Review (England), Architectural record (USA), World Architecture (Great Britain), Monument (Australia), Lotus (Italy) and Space (Korea). In 2003, Architectural record named SCDA as one of the 10 Design Vanguard firms reshaping the globe.

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Mr Chan obtained his Master of Architecture degree at Yale University in 1987 and Bachelor of Arts, Major Architecture, from Washington University in 1984. In 2006, Washington University honoured Soo Khian with a distinguished alumni award.