This book examines the development of Kerry Hill Architects over a period of thirty years. Kerry Hill Architects is a Singapore-based practice with a second office in Fremantle, Western Australia. Kerry Hill has received a number of distinguished design awards including the inaugural Kenneth F. Brown Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Design Award in 1995 and the 2001 Aga Khan Award three times, was a joint winner in 2003 of the RAIA Robin Boyd Award for Residential Buildings and, in 2006, won the most prestigious award offered by his peers, the Gold Medal of the Australian Institute of Architects. In 2010 Kerry Hill received the Singapore Designer of the Year Award. The book comprises a number of thematic essays developed from recurring themes within the practice, based around a small group of objects. The book concludes with a substantial illustrated chronology of the practice’s work.

• Introduction by Paul Finch
• Text by Geoffrey London
• Afterword by Erwin Virray
• Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

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Contributors Biographies

Kerry Hill is an Australian architect originally from Perth, where he studied at the University of Western Australia, graduating in 1968. He holds professional practice registrations in Singapore and most Australian states. Early in his career, he moved to Asia with his family, and from 1971 lived and worked in Hong Kong, Jakarta, and Bali, Indonesia, before taking up residence in Singapore, where he started to practice in his own right in 1979. The practice remains based in Singapore, and more recently opened an Australian office in his home city of Perth. He now divides his time between Singapore, Perth, and his other adopted home in Galle, Sri Lanka. He lectures and travels extensively, and has taught at several leading schools of architecture. In 2008, he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Architecture by his alma mater, The University of Western Australia, where he is also adjunct professor of architecture. His direction and dedication to the practice of architecture over more than thirty-five years has been recognized in the many design awards given to the practice through the years, including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2001. In 2006, the Australian Institute of Architects honored him with the Gold Medal, in recognition of his achievements and contribution to the profession over the years; and in 2010, he received the President’s Design Award for the Designer of the Year in Singapore. He was most recently made Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO).

Geoffrey London is the Victorian Government Architect. He is also a pro- fessor of architecture at The University of Western Australia and has held the position of Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne. He was, for a period of nearly five years, the inaugural Government Architect in Western Australia. He is a past dean and head of school at UWA, past chair of the Committee of Heads of Architecture Schools of Australasia, a past president of the Western Australian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects, and a Life Fellow of the Institute. He is currently a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts and has acted as a consultant on numerous architectural and urban design projects. He has served on and acted as chair of many architectural design award juries and a large number of competition juries.

Paul Finch is chairman of Design Council CABE (the architecture and built environment wing of the UK Design Council). He is director of the World Architecture Festival, and editorial director of the Architectural Review and Architects’ Journal. He was born in London and studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and in 2002 he was awarded an OBE for services to architecture.