WOHA Architects is a Singapore-based practice focused on researching and innovating
integrated architectural and urban solutions to tackle the problems of the 21st century such
as climate change, population growth, and rapidly increasing urbanisation.
With every project, the practice creates living systems that connect to the city. They aim to
be a matrix of interconnected human-scaled environments that foster community, enable
stewardship of nature, generate biocentric beauty, activate ecosystem services, and build
resilience. This is achieved by applying WOHA’s systems-thinking approach, which recognises
how each development interacts with other systems that it is part of, and works across
disciplines to achieve an integrated outcome.
Ar. Wong Mun Summ co-founded WOHA in 1994 with Ar. Richard Hassell. Wong teaches at his alma
mater, the National University of Singapore’s Department of Architecture, and has also been
appointed to the Seidler Chair in the Practice of Architecture at the University of New
South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He sits on various design advisory panels in Singapore and
around the world, including the Nominating Committee of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize.
Ar. Phua Hong Wei is a Director at WOHA who has worked on a variety of its projects, notably
Kampung Admiralty, Oasia Hotel Downtown, Enabling Village, and Pan Pacific Orchard Hotel.
Shefali Lal is an architectural designer at WOHA. She is heavily invested in the research and
development of WOHA’s ideas for future cities through her work on visionary masterplans such
as Singapore 2100.
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