SENG, Eunice M.F. 成美芬

BA (AS) Singapore/ MArch Princeton/ MPhil Columbia/ RA / SBA / AssocAIA
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, HKU
香港大學建築系助理教授
http://www.arch.hku.hk/staff/arch/seng-eunice-m-f/
eseng@hku.hk
Tel: 25465717

Major Research Interests 研究課題

Modern architecture and urbanism, modernity and housing, histories and theories of the Metropolis, politics of power, post-colonialism, inter-disciplinary and comparative approaches to architecture, utopias, artifacts and cultural translations.

Major Current Research Projects 研究項目

  • Documenting Man Wah Sun Chuen: A Critical History of Collective Dwelling in Hong Kong, c.1950s-70s
  • Artifacts: Partitions

Major Recent Publications on Housing 近期關於房屋的著作

  • Seng, E. (2012). The Mall, the House, and the Inbetweeners. In A. Stefan (Ed.)  Mall Cities. HKU Press.
  • Seng, E. (2012). The Flat and the Corridor: the Improvement Myth, in post‐Independence Singapore, 1959‐1979. IASTE Working Paper Series.
  • Seng, E. (2012). The Crisis of Housing as Architectural Thesis: Ten Points of Reflection in Lieu of a Manifesto”. A Film Review. Hour 25: HKU Architecture Papers Vol. 1. Novato: ORO editions.
  • Seng, E. (2012). “惑Section. A Film Review. Hour 25: HKU Architecture Papers Vol. 1. Novato: ORO editions.
  • Seng, E. & Wee. H.K. (2011). Wulumuqi Road Apartment. Asia Pacific Design Center Awards.
  • Seng, E. (2011).The Politics of Greening: Spatial Constructions of the Public in Singapore. In W Lim & J.H. Chang (Eds.)  Non West Modernist Past, 2011.
  • Seng, E. & H.K. Wee (2009). Shanghai Artifacts: The Reproduction of Nostalgia, or the Possibilities for a Design Culture. In W. Lim (Ed.) Collection of Essays on Asian Design Culture, 2009, 92-101.
  • Seng, E. & I‐S. Chow (2008). You‐Prison: Reflections of the Limitation of Freedom and Space. sciSKEW collaborative: SSIHTMPEPC Shanghai Partition. Exhibition catalog. Torino.
  • Seng, E. & I‐S. Chow (2007). Cores, partitions & useless spaces. Time + Architecture Journal. No. 94.Tongji University.
  • Seng, E. (2005). Utopia or Euphoria? Six Sites of Resistance in Disneyland & Singapore. Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, Vol.16 (11), 39-58.
  • Seng, E. & H.K. Wee (2002). Instruments of Modernism: Inflection & Transformation of Public Housing in Singapore. Proceedings of Great Asian Streets Symposium: Public Space 2002, July 2002, National University of Singapore.
  • Seng, E. (1999). Hom‐e‐scape[s]: tabula rasa, or the denial of a Singaporean Contemporaneity. Singapore Architect Journal, Vol. 201, 70-80.
  • Seng, E. (1999). Hom‐e‐scapes: Housing Twelve Stories. Researching Cities Exhibition, Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York City, April‐May.