Raymond Quek
About
Raymond Quek is an architectural educator and administrator, a wide-ranging architectural historian, a published author, a qualified architect and holds academic qualifications to doctoral level. Born in Singapore, he received his professional architectural degree at Liverpool University (UK) where he won the Charles Reilly Medal. He obtained a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust scholarship to pursue postgraduate work at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, where he read History and Philosophy of Architecture. He has been Head of the Leicester School of Architecture (UK), and Head of the Abedian School of Architecture at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia. Raymond initiated, founded & syndicated the Association of Architectural Educators (UK & Eire) in 2010, currently a thriving international organisation representing educators across most schools in the UK and Eire. AAE hosts international conferences and runs a peer reviewed academic journal: CHARETTE. An unconventional scholar, he works on many fronts and has published across several areas. His theoretical & academic research explores Architectural Representation in the History of Ideas as a problem of visual knowledge in art, architecture and design primarily in the Italian Renaissance, the meeting of East and West architecture circa 18 – 20c, SE Asian Architectural History, 20c Catholic Architecture, and architecture’s relationship with the arts in 19/20c. He published “Nationalism and Architecture”. He is currently completing Fiction • Image • Tone: Metropolis & Architecture Witnessed and also “Keys & Dowdeswell: Landmark Architecture: Straits Settlements & Federated Malayan States, 1920 -1934”. He has also published on Singapore/South East Asian Architectural history and has guest edited several academic journals. He is on the editorial board of the South African Journal of Art History, an advisor for the Journal of Art Historiography, and an international advisor at SPACE: Studies of Planning and Architecture. Quek has organised several international conferences under the Theoretical Currents Framework, Nationalism, Architecture and the Geographic Impulse & Modern Catholic Space. He is a member of ARENA (EU Architectural Research Network). His design research & teaching focusses on Coastal environments, Urban rethinking and the visualisation of space. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Society of the Arts, he has been invited to lecture in the US, UK, Australia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. He has been Keynote speaker at conferences in UK (Nationalism), China (Conversation), Taiwan (Coastal Cities) and Nigeria (Architectural Education). He has also taught PhD seminars and studio as a visiting professor in Universities in USA and has been an external examiner at the Ion Mincu School of Architecture in Romania, and Schools in Jordan, Iran, Singapore and UK. He has been consulted on the development of Architectural and Design Education at Salford & Lincoln Universities (UK), universities in Canada, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland and Iran. He was an invited to assess international architectural competitions in Taiwan, and in Jordan. Quek has been invited to examine PhDs at Griffiths University (Australia) and in the UK, and has also been invited to assesses research project grants in Israel, Latvia and UK. He has been an urban, architectural and property development consultant to business leaders in the Gold Coast (Australia), and in Norfolk, the East Midlands & Yorkshire in the UK. Professionally qualified in two jurisdictions, Singapore and UK, he started his practice, raymond quek • architect, in 1995 and completed projects in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, NZ, UK and Ireland. His practice was an early adopter of 2D/3D CAD; and as trainer for Graphisoft/Nemetshek and early developer of realistic CAD renderings his practice exhibited at MACWORLD 1998.