Eugene SEOW Eu Jin 萧友仁

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•Occupation: Arcitect (dean of architecture Singapore University) •Title: Prof. •Note: Eu Jin Seow, returned to Singapore after World War II as an architect. He practiced architecture there, founding an architectural group called Seow Lee and Heah which I'm not sure if it still exists. Apart from various buildings his firm designed in Singapore, his major accomplishments included being on the preservation of monuments board in Singapore which tries to preserve historical buildings on the island (of which Tan Tock Seng hospital was one of) and he was head of architecture at the National University of Singapore around the 1980's. •Change Date: 2 SEP 2010 at 15:39:32

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Seow Eu Jin grew up in a mansion on Emerald Hill. His mother, Polly Tan, was a daughter of Tan Boo Liat, a descendant of Tan Tock Seng. He studied engineering in Perth and then architecture in Melbourne. His career began with the firm Booty and Edwards in Kuala Lumpur, but in 1951 he started E. J. Seow Associates, which later became Seow, Lee and Heah. He was the first president of the Singapore Institute of Architects. Seow was also vicechairman of the Preservation of Monuments Board. He encouraged Singaporeans to contribute suggestions on monuments to preserve. In 1974 he became head of the University of Singapore’s School of Architecture. Working in an international modernist style, Seow’s firm designed houses and residential tower blocks. One of Seow’s most prominent buildings is the original wing of the Shangri-La Hotel, finished in 1971.