Soon-Tzu Speechley

The Shophouses of British Malaya

Soon-Tzu Speechley

Book Chapter  |  2022

Using colonial-era criminal records and more recent documentation of LGBT life in Southeast Asia, this chapter uncovers the histor..

BOOK REVIEW: Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam, by Christina Schwenkel

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Journal article  |  2022  |  Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

Building Socialism is a richly interdisciplinary study of the Quang Trung housing estate in the Vietnamese city of Vinh. Comprehen..

A Squandered Inheritance

Soon-Tzu Speechley

Journal article  |  2021  |  Meanjin

Far too often, heritage is framed as antithetical to progress, an obstacle to development in our cities. But perhaps it offers a w..

The Work of Memory and Maintenance

Soon-Tzu Speechley

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2021

Architectural historians generally work with a degree of distance – both spatial and temporal – from their subjects. Sometimes, th..

Malayan Classicism

Soon-Tzu Speechley

Presentation  |  2021

Along the length of the Malay Peninsula and the neighbouring islands of Penang and Singapore, tens of thousands of historic buildi..

[Review of the book] Contested Space Revisited: George Town, Penang Before and After UNESCO World Heritage Listing, by Gwynn Jenkins, Penang, Areca Books, 2019. ISBN: 9789675719370.

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Journal article  |  2021  |  Fabrications: the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

Contested Space Revisited is a timely intervention in the literature on Asian heritage, providing an in-depth look not only at the..

“They will not suffer a church more beautiful than their own”: the Chinese as patrons of ecclesiastical architecture in early twentieth-century Singapore

Soon-Tzu Speechley, Kang Shua Yeo

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  East Asian Architecture in Globalization: Values, Inheritance and Dissemination

This paper traces Chinese patronage of church architecture in early twentieth-century Singapore through a discussion of three chur..

The Classical Language of Architecture in British Malaya, 1867-1941

Soon-Tzu Speechley

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2020

In both Malaysia and Singapore, thousands of historic buildings sport facades with architectural vocabulary drawn from Graeco-Roma..

Using image processing to understand 20th-century architectural colour schemes in Singapore

Kang Shua Yeo, U-Xuan Tan, Soon-Tzu Speechley, Lawrence Chin, Achala Athukorala

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Macro to Micro: Examining Architectural Finishes

Increasing awareness of architectural heritage in Singapore has led to greater shared responsibility in preserving the urban fabri..

On Armenian Street

Soon-Tzu Speechley

Book Chapter  |  2017

Reflecting on his time at 120 Armenian Street, Soon-Tzu Speechley argues that shophouses reveal both layered histories of migratio..