HO Puay-peng

Ho Puay-peng holds the UNESCO Chair on Architectural Heritage Conservation and Management in Asia and is currently Professor of Architecture, Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining NUS, he was Professor of Architecture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. During the 25 years at the University, he served as University Dean of Students, Chair of Department of Architecture and Founding Director of School of Architecture.

His main research and publication focus is in the areas of Buddhist art and architecture, Chinese architectural history, vernacular architecture and history of modern architecture in China and Hong Kong. Sustaining his research is the quest to understand religious culture and its architectural forms. While his main focus is Buddhist art, architecture and ritual of medieval China, his research has been located at the intersection of art, architecture and the wider societal context. In other domains of research, he is interested in everyday urbanism and architecture, both in history and presently.

Over the last 25 years, he directed more than 100 conservation and heritage projects in Hong Kong, China and Singapore as the conservation consultant, some receiving local and international conservation awards. He was Chairman of Lord Wilson Heritage Trust, and a member of Town Planning Board and Antiquities Advisory Board in Hong Kong. Currently, he is appointed as a member of Heritage and Identity Partnership (URA), Chairman of Heritage Advisory Panel (NHB), a Patron of International Dunhuang Project, British Library and an editorial board member of several international academic journals. He worked with many charitable organisations in Hong Kong and Singapore to promote heritage conservation and education.