Yat-ming Loo

Biography

I am a registered Part 3 architect, urbanist, architectural historian and theorist. My academic and research objective is to develop new methods aimed at a global understanding of architecture and urbanism linking the experience, knowledge and practices in the West and Asia, in particular Southeast Asia and the Far East. I obtained my Master’s degree in Architectural History and PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from the Bartlett, University College London. My PhD thesis was shortlisted for RIBA President's Award for Research 2010 (Outstanding PhD Thesis). I am the author of Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur: Race and Chinese Spaces in a Postcolonial City published by Ashgate Publishing (2013). Currently I am writing a book on London’s Chinese East End, due to be published by English Heritage in 2015. This book is based on rigorous research spanning over 6 years funded by various research bodies including RIBA Research Trust, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Heritage Lottery Fund. I have worked in the field of architecture and built environment since 1992 and have experience in practising, teaching, writing and researching architecture and urbanism in Malaysia and the UK. I am an active researcher and my teaching is informed by my research and writing.

Research Interest

Intercultural city and postcolonial urbanism, in particular relating to cultural identity, modernity, migration and globalization Colonial and postcolonial architecture Minority spaces and spaces of diasporic experience, in particular (Overseas) Chinese urbanism Urban Memory, Heritage and Regeneration Transcultural Architectural Design and Sustainable Cities   Interdisciplinary research connecting cultural studies, ethnography, urban studies and architecture Architectural History and Theory