HOUSE@SEA EXHIBITION
RE:VIEW KL EXHIBITION
BUILD YOUR MANIFESTO EXHIBITION
PAM EXHIBITIONS




HOUSE@SEA EXHIBITION
A REGIONAL SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURES
3 – 18 JULY 2011, 11AM – 7PM
DATUM:KL SHOWBOX
MAP@PUBLIKA – WHITE BOX
LEVEL G2-01, BLOCK A5
JALAN DUTAMAS 1, OFF JALAN DUTA
50480 KUALA LUMPUR

featuring (in alphabetical order)
ABODAY ARCHITECTS, INDONESIA
ADI PURNOMO, INDONESIA
ALL(ZONE) with STEFANO MIRTI, THAILAND
ANDRA MATIN ARCHITECTS, INDONESIA
BOON DESIGN, THAILAND
BUDI PRADONO ARCHITECTS, INDONESIA
BUILDING BLOC, MALAYSIA
CHANG ARCHITECTS, SINGAPORE
CODA with ARKITEK NORMAN SELAMAT, MALAYSIA
FORMWERKZ ARCHITECTS, SINGAPORE
GUZ ARCHITECTS, SINGAPORE
KANIKA RATANAPRIDAKUL, THAILAND
LINGHAO ARCHITECTS, SINGAPORE
MASYERIN M.N. ARCHITECTS, MALAYSIA
SUPERMACHINE STUDIO, THAILAND
ZON DESIGN REKABINA (ZDR), MALAYSIA

The house in Architecture remains its most fundamental unit and core identity, at once the centre of 
architecture’s role to provide basic shelter and to facilitate human life. With a point of origin as ancient as History itself, the house represents for many the very personification of Architecture and from where all architectures begins. At the same time, the house is never a static inert construct but also the site for the most intense architectural speculations and experimentation, reflecting over time and milieu the evolution of societal structures and the relationship of Man to the world before him.

House@SEA attempts to explore the typology of the house and to locate the subject of dwelling within the South East Asian region. In the ASEAN grouping of 10 countries and almost 600 million people, the region shares many commonalities in terms of climate, language, cultural norms while maintaining 
distinctive differences and identities. The growth of international and regional trade, increasing travel linkages and digital connectivity, amongst other conditions, combine to create an expanded ‘home’ within the region from which this exhibition attempts a survey of a regional architectural practice with all its inherent specificities and generalities while never at any point attempting to create an architectural prescription or movement.

Confronted with the prospect of rapidly urbanising populations on a scale to create a dozen new Bombays, perhaps the house in itself will become a diminishing reality. In this light, the 16 houses exhibited here drawn from 4 countries are selected to convey the divergent range of approaches and solutions to the problem of the house. From typological interventions to programmatic inventions and material experimentations, from adaptations to changes in familial units to interpretations of blurring divisions in live-work patterns, House@SEA offers a moment to consider the house in all its myriad aspects and conditions.

Text excerpted from exhibition essay by Veronica Ng Foong Peng and Ang Chee Cheong
Curated by Ang Chee Cheong







RE:VIEW KL
CONSTRUCTING URBAN PERSPECTIVES
GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
3 – 18 JULY 2011, 11AM – 7PM
DATUM:KL SHOWBOX
MAP@PUBLIKA – WHITE BOX
LEVEL G2-01, BLOCK A5
JALAN DUTAMAS 1, OFF JALAN DUTA
50480 KUALA LUMPUR

featuring (in alphabetical order)
EIFFEL CHONG
ERNA DYANTY
LIM THIAN LEONG
MINSTREL KUIK
NADIA J. MAHFIX
NIKT WONG
SHAFINA SHERIDAN

RE:VIEW KL is exactly as the title of this photography exhibition suggests. To ‘review’ something means to re-examine that subject, re-assess or re-evaluate it, and the works in this exhibition do just that. From constructed images of nature that take centre stage to the geometric features of low-cost accommodation around the city centre, the photographic works in RE:VIEW KL offer viewers a re-look or another viewpoint of Kuala Lumpur, the city that Malaysians proudly call its capital.

Architecture and photography have existed in tandem for a long time. Photography, known for its accuracy and innate ability as a medium to seemingly freeze life within frames, has always been a trusty medium and aid in the field of architecture, whether it has been – or continues to be – used to record a barren site for an architect to imagine his future creation, document the progress of a building, capture the building’s surroundings, or extol the finished product from various angles, as we often seen in glossy architectural books that celebrate marvels in brick, steel, or other materials.

Photography’s factual capacity is one of its most important assets, but photography also has the strength of being able to capture the elusive and to represent intangible elements, such as a particular mood, time, or spirit alongside true-to-life features. In many instances, these diverging elements sit together comfortably and without conflict, but they can also create a tension that challenges the viewer to question situations or to see things differently.

It’s on this note that RE:VIEW KL should be seen. This photography exhibition is another look at Kuala Lumpur – a city that all Malaysians have some relationship with – and it goes beyond the common place images of the city more fondly known as KL.

Excerpt of exhibition essay by Rachel Jena, an independent art writer based in Kuala Lumpur.
Curated by Ang Chee Cheong
(A portion of the sales of artworks will be donated to charity.)



































BUILD YOUR MANIFESTO EXHIBITION
8 ARCHITECTURAL INSTALLATIONS
3 – 18 JULY 2011, 11AM – 7PM
DATUM:KL SHOWBOX
MAP@PUBLIKA – WHITE BOX
LEVEL G2-01, BLOCK A5
JALAN DUTAMAS 1, OFF JALAN DUTA
50480 KUALA LUMPUR

featuring (in alphabetical order)
AKITEK PITAL + SOW & ALLAN
C’ARCH ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
CODA (COLLABORATION OFFICE OF DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE)
FABIAN TAN ARCHITECT
ZON DESIGN REKABINA (ZDR)
MERCY MALAYSIA TECHNICAL TEAM
SACHA AND TAN ARCHITECTS
ZLG DESIGN

A group exhibition featuring tectonic installations by 8 teams of architects to explore notions of thinking, building, practice and representation.

In a departure from the conventional and normative ‘architectural’ exhibition of drawings, models, photographs, 3D perspectives, video clips, etc., the exhibition brief requests architects to design and construct a site-specific installation within the confines of a gallery space. As an opportunity to distance their daily practice and its concomitant restrictive realisms, the architects are challenged to consider and re-position their work within a speculative ‘manifesto’ proposition. The installations, driven independently by each teams professional practice and personal convictions, is intended to showcase the architects repertoire and ideology in a material construction to reinforce and reflect the vital connection between thinking and building; the theoretical made real…

Curated by Ang Chee Cheong











































PAM EXHIBITIONS

30/40 EXHIBITION
30 JUNE 2011 – 3 JULY 2011, 11AM – 7PM
KUALA LUMPUR CONVENTION CENTRE

"RE/MIXED" MALAYSIA@BIENNALE
ARCHITETTURA EXHIBITION
30 JUNE 2011 – 17 JULY 2011
MUZIUM NEGARA

ARCHITECTS MALAYSIA EXHIBITION
ONGOING
PAM CENTRE