MR. KHOO PENG BENG
Director
Arc Studio + Urbanism

Adjunct Associate Professor Khoo Peng Beng founded his architectural practice, ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism, with his wife, Belinda Huang in 1998. They are recipients of the prestigious of the President’s Design Award for the Designers of the year in 2021 and are currently working on projects in Singapore, Malaysia, China, India, Myanmar, Cambodia and Rwanda. Their work is known to be creative, process driven, human centric and sustainable. Their transformational design, the Pinnacle@Duxton, is lauded globally and continues to set the benchmark for high rise high density public housing. Peng Beng’s work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Sao Paulo Biennale, Seoul Biennale, the prestigious Cite de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris.and other international exhibitions. He was the lead curator of Singapore’s contribution to the 2010 Venice Biennale, 1000 Singapores, A model of the compact city, which is now part of the permanent collection of the Asian Culture Complex in South Korea. His talk today will cover challenges affecting our world today and how design can transform them into opportunities for a more sustainable future for everyone.