FOREWORD

HO PUAY PENG HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

I would like to congratulate the Master of Landscape Architecture programme on the 10th anniversary of the launch of the programme at NUS. This is the only professional programme on landscape architecture offered in Singapore and in ten years, it has achieved a universal renown that we are proud of. The past ten years have allowed the programme to mature and make significant contributions to landscape education and research, both locally and regionally, and certainly internationally. The most obvious harvest is the education of more than 100 alumni who are contributing enormously in the landscape sector in various parts of the world. They acquired the knowledge and skill from the programme and are able to make a difference in the locale they are now working. We are proud of the alumni and would want to work with them continuously to advance the profession of landscape architecture.

In both teaching and research, MLA programme and faculty members work closely along the national agenda of Singapore in creating a ‘City in Nature’. Through many design studios and research projects, the scope, characters, strategies, and methods for implementing this agenda were explored and tested with design solutions. The results had been both pragmatic and speculative, and contribute to making Singapore the epicenter of tropical landscape and urban nature. I am sure it will continue to provide leadership in professionalism and research in landscape architecture and studies.

I would like to thank all students, alumni, faculty members and admin staff who had given so much to make this 10-year journey a great success. Without your efforts, we will not be able to reach this milestone. We are looking forward to greater things to come, not least the introduction of the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture programme: the formation of a substantial creative prowess for landscape research and practices at NUS.