Education
He graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and continued his graduate studies at Harvard University.
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William Lim
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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, he started his own business. He was conferred a Doctor of Architecture Honoris Causa by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) 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.
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). 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.
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Membership
He was a founding member of the Singapore Heritage Society.
