Climate + Territory

The Climate + Territory Design Section focuses design and research efforts on the relationship between environment, territory, and urban architecture located in the hot and wet tropical regions of South East Asia. Efforts are directed particularly towards the interface between the mediums in the construction of architecture and landscape: atmosphere, water, land-form, nature, and building that constitute the hot and wet Asian Mega-City.

The research ambition is to develop robust design strategies that incorporate the natural and built environment as a cohesive and complex whole within the contexts of rapid population growth, social and material inequalities, and cultural and global identity in a tropical territory of rapid change.

The Climate + Territory Design Section has ten unique design academics with cross-disciplinary expertise and interests. Their individual foci include architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, history and theory. Students benefit not only from the rigorous and lively debate within the Climate+Territory Design Section but also from the faculty’s extensive networks in South East Asia. Past collaborations include design research located in Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Mumbai, Cambodia, Johor and Batam with partner institutions including the FCL/ETH Zurich, Tongji University, Pratt University and Washington University in St. Louis.

Faculty:

Erik G. L’Heureux

Oscar Carracedo

Abel Tablada

Chang Jiat Hwee

Teh Kem Jin

Tomohisa Miyauchi

Rafaella Sini

Joerg Rekittke

Hwang Yun Hye

Tan Puay Yok