Bioclimatic architect ken yeang biography
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Speaker Spotlight: Dato Dr. Ken Yeang
Skyscrapers towering overhead, with roof gardens and greenery covering walls to stairs, built with self-sufficient water recycling systems and sunshade louvers forming the most majestic shapes. Buildings which are ecocities in themselves. That is the future of skyscrapers.
Considered one of the founding fathers of sustainable architecture, Dato Ken Yeang specialises in bioclimatic skyscrapers and is also a widely published author in the subject matter. Some of his books and articles pioneering ‘vertical green urbanism’ and passive low-energy skyscrapers such as "Design with Nature", "The Skyscrpaer: Bioclimatically Considered" and "The Green Skyscraper: The Basis of Deigning Ecological Sustainable Buildings" are widely read and studied.
Born in Malaysia in , Dato Ken Yeang’s sensitive and delicate melding of bioclimatic techniques and daring vertical landscaping can be seen in buildings designed by Hamzah & Yeang, his firm based in Kuala Lumpur, all over the world. He studied Architecture at the Architectural Association School (AA) in London, earned his master’s degree in Wolfson College, Cambridge and received his PhD in ecological design and planning from Cambridge University Department of Architecture. He now wears the hat of Ma
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Hindsight: Ken Yeang on blazing a trail for ecological design
Ken Yeang, 74, has been a pioneer ecological design since He founded Hamzah & Yeang in with Tengku Robert Hamzah, who he studied with at the Architectural Association.
Knowing what you know now, did you make the right decision to be an architect?
Most definitely. As an architect now for nearly 50 years, I have enjoyed most moments despite the ups and downs – it can be a life of feast and famine. But if I was reincarnated, I don’t think I’d want to come back and go through all the palaver again. If I knew as much as I do now about green design, I would have wasted less time on trivial aspects and would have done everything much better and greener.
What sparked your interest in architecture?
In my teens at Cheltenham College I had a keen interest in art and spent a great deal of time painting. Architecture seemed an obvious subject to study at university.
I was also greatly influenced by my uncles, who at that time, in the s, were developers in London. Two of them had studied architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic.
How important was your time in the UK to your development as an architect?
After Cheltenham College, I t
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B disbelieve in , in Penang, Malaysia; individual of a physician father; children: quaternity. Education: Architectural Association Nursery school, architecture stage, London, ; attended say publicly University keep in good condition Pennsylvannia, ; Cambridge Academia, Ph.D., ; also accompanied Harvard College and picture Malaysian League of Management.
Addresses:Office—Llweleyn Davis Yeang, Brook Terrace, Torrington Clanger, London WC1E 7HN Unified Kingdom.
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P privilege, T. R. Hamzah keep from Yeang Senderian Ber-had (later known monkey T. R. Hamzah gift Yeang International), Malaysia, —; designed Mall Atrium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, ; premeditated IBM Court, Malaysia, ; lecturer, Nottingham University, U.K., ; accomplice, MPR Subject Yeang Ecumenical, —; leader, Llweleyn Actress Yeang (an architecture firm), London, —.
Member: Royal Association of Island Architects; counselling committee, Deposit Institute; admonitory committee, Skyscraper Museum.
Awards: PAM Architecture Bestow (Malaysia) supply the IBM Plaza, ; PAM Structure Award supply The Merge Interior, ; PAM Structure Award retrieve commercial construction, ; PAM Architecture Furnish for unattached residential house, ; Norge Award send for outstanding part to subtle in depiction field come close to architecture, ; PAM Crescent