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Lilian Chee

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Lilian Chee

Associate Professor, Architecture, the National University of Singapore

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Lilian Chee is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces (2019) and co-editor of Asian Cinema and The Use of Space (2015). She conceptualized, researched, and collaborated on the award-winning architectural essay film about single women occupants in Singapore’s public housing 03-FLATS (2014). Her work is situated at the intersections of architectural representation, gender and affect in a contemporary interdisciplinary context. A writer, academic, designer, curator, and award-winning educator, her research explores the emergence of architecture through everyday encounter, often in domestic spaces.

Publications:

  • Chee, Lilian. Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315604565.

  • Chee, Lilian. ‘Domesticity, Gender, and Architecture’. In The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Architectural History, edited by Duanfang Lu, 185–201. Routledge, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315674469.

  • Jane Simon, Sophia Maalsen, Lilian Chee & Cathy Smith (2023). Reflections on, and from, Feminist Practice: Introduction to the ‘Home’ Special Issue, Australian Feminist Studies, DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2023.2267178

  • Audrey Yue, Lilian Chee, Jane M. Jacobs & Natalie Pang (2023). Making do: young people and mobilities at home, Journal of Youth Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2023.2261859

  • Lilian Chee (2022). ‘Housing and Domesticity’, Architecture and Culture, 10:3, 554-558, DOI: 10.1080/20507828.2022.2121898  

  • Lilian Chee, Silvia Federici and Daniela Ortiz dos Santos. “Domestic Work and the Architecture of Emancipation.” Contemporary Feminist Spatial Practice, Arch+ v.246, (February 2022), 66-75.

  • Chee, Lilian, Jane M. Jacobs, Audrey Yue, and Natalie Pang. ‘Foundations for Home-Based Work: A Singapore Study (A Project Funded by the Social Science Research Council)’. Singapore: Foundations for Home-based Work (NUS), 2022. https://foundationsforhomebasedwork.com.

  • Mun, Ian and Lilian Chee. Objects for Thriving. Documentary. Singapore: NUS and Roving Productions, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYtBmE4_Qrk.

  • Chee, Lilian. ‘Keeping Cats, Hoarding Things: Domestic Situations in the Public Spaces of the Singaporean Housing Block’. The Journal of Architecture 22, no. 6 (18 August 2017): 1041–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2017.1362024.

  • Lei, Yuan Bin and Lilian Chee. 03-FLATS. Architectural Essay Film. Singapore: National University of Singapore and 13 Little Pictures, 2014, http://www.03-flats.com/