NOW CONFERENCE – SEASON 1
1 JULY 2011 – 2 JULY 2011

The conference, previously known as DATUM:KL, remains the principal anchor event for the Festival, but shall from this year onwards be re-conceptualised as the NOW CONFERENCE. NOW implies an immediacy, a moment in the present to define new positions and potentials, an architectural status update! At a time when architecture seeks new directions and new beginnings, the debut conference will seek to examine and describe key trajectories of thinking and practice, and to underline the essential transformative aspects of architecture as a critical instrumentality to engage a continually changing world.

NOW CONFERENCE / SEASON 1 will feature a series of lectures by a selection of both established and emergent architects and designers with divergent range of approaches and interests from the region and internationally. In addition to introducing a new set of exceptional talent to the Datum community, this year we welcome back some of our original speakers who over the years has also risen in stature and profile alongside Datum. The new conference will also have a refreshed and updated format but will leave intact the things that have worked well.























SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)
YB SENATOR DATO SRI’ IDRIS JALA PUTRAJAYA
ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG CARACAS
PITUPONG CHAOWAKUL BANGKOK
FLORIAN IDENBURG & JING LIU NEW YORK/BEIJING
ZHANG LI BEIJING
LAURENCE LOH PENANG
JÜRGEN MAYER BERLIN
HIROSHI NAKAMURA TOKYO
OLE SCHEEREN HONG KONG/BEIJING
MARC SIMMONS NEW YORK
CAMERON SINCLAIR LONDON
ALAN TAY & SEETOH KUM LOON SINGAPORE


ALAN TAY & SEETOH KUM LOON SINGAPORE
FORMWERKZ ARCHITECTS www.formwerkz.com
LECTURE TITLE: SINGAPORE HOUSES

Formwerkz was founded in Singapore by Alan Tay, Berlin Lee and Seetoh Kum Loon in 1998. Gwen Tan, the fourth partner joined the firm in 2002. The office is comprised of a progressive, multi-disciplinary group of 25 like-minded professionals that specialise in architecture, urban design, interior and landscape design. They adopt a collaborative structure that encourages diverse and overlapping areas of expertise to achieve more comprehensive design solutions that transforms seemingly ordinary narratives and context into objects of meaningful beauty. In Singapore, besides continuing their effort to produce high quality houses, they are currently commissioned to work on numerous high profile hospitality and leisure projects in Sentosa and around the main land. The Aramsa Garden Spa, which they completed in 2006, has been winning numerous Design and Tourism awards.