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Dr. Lilian CHEE

PhD (Bartlett, UCL, 2006), MSc (Arch History) with Distinction (Bartlett, UCL, 2001),

B.Arch (Hons) (NUS, 1997), BA (Arch Studies) (NUS, 1995)

Lilian Chee is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, where she co-leads the Research by Design Cluster, and currently holds the position of Academic Director at the NUS Museum. She is a writer, academic, designer, curator and award-winning educator. A recipient of the University and Faculty Teaching Honour Rolls at NUS, she has lectured at the Bartlett, Delft, ETH Zurich, Melbourne, Aarhus, Barnard College at Columbia University, and the Berlage Centre. Her work is situated at the interdisciplinary intersections of creative practice, architectural representation, visual cultures, gender and affect. Influenced by film, art and literature, she engages how affective constructions of architectural discourse transform its histories and theories. Her award-winning film collaboration 03-FLATS (2014) has screened in 16 major cities. She is on the editorial boards of Architectural Theory Review, Australian Feminist Studies, the IDEA journal and advisor for the Bloomsbury Architecture Library. Her recent book projects are the research monograph Architecture and Affect (Routledge, 2023), and edited volume Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance (Lund Humphries, 2022). She co-directed the short film Objects for Thriving (2022) which explores objects, domestic spaces, structures of feeling and the elderly. She was Visiting Fellow at Future Cities Lab Singapore-ETH Centre (2018), Honorary Senior Research Associate at Bartlett UCL (2018-2019), and currently, Cultural Studies in Asia William Lim Siew Wai Fellow (2023-24) and Fellow of the Insurgent Domesticities collective hosted at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Social Difference (2020-24). Her current research, funded by the Social Sciences Research Council, explores the intersection of home-based work practices with domesticity and public life. She runs a parallel project on degenerative aging’s implications on domestic space.

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