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William S.W. Lim, born in Hong Kong in 1932, is a Singaporean architect. He graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and continued his graduate studies at Harvard University. Lim was a Fulbright Fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Harvard University. Since 1957, he has worked in Singapore and Malaysia in several businesses as a partner. His work began from the design of modernist structures for residential and commercial interests, and progressed on to large-scale shopping centres in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. His designs include the People's Park Complex (1973) in Singapore, which went on to become the model for commercial development in the city; the Golden Mile Complex (1974); and the Tanglin Shopping Center. In 1981,〔(William Lim's CV from the Cities On The Move Exhibition 1999 )〕 he started his own business. He was a founding member of the Singapore Heritage Society.〔(CV OF WILLIAM S W LIM )〕 Lim is also a co-founder and Chairman of Asian Urban Lab and President of the Architectural Association of Asia (AA Asia). He was conferred a Doctor of Architecture ''Honoris Causa'' by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Australia, in 2002 and appointed Honorary Professor of LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts (Singapore) in 2005. Currently, Lim writes and lectures on a wide range of subjects relating to architecture, urbanism and culture in Asia as well as on current issues relating to the postmodern, ''glocality'' and social justice.〔(William S.W. Lim Google books ) 〕 He is author of ''Asian Alterity: With Special Reference to Architecture and Urbanism through The Lens of Cultural Studies'' (2008), as well as editor of ''Asian Design Culture'' (2009) and co-editor of ''Non West Modernist Past'' (2011). ==Projects== *1973 People's Park Complex,Singapore *1974 Golden Mile Complex, Singapore *1980 Tanglin Shopping Centre, Singapore *1987 Church of Our Saviour (conversion), Singapore *1999 Marine Parade Community Building, Singapore File:People's Park Complex 2, Dec 05.jpg|People's Park Complex, Singapore File:Golden Mile Complex 4, Aug 07.jpg|Golden Mile Complex, Singapore File:Marine Parade Community Building, Sep 07.JPG|Marine Parade Community Building, Singapore 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William S.W. Lim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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