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1 Leyla Acaroglu and Liam Fennessy, ‘Rapid Adjustments Required: How Australian Design Might Contend with a Carbon Constrained Economy’, paper presented to the agideas International Research Conference, 22 May 2012.

2 ‘Material Matters’, Indesign No. 56, March/May 2014, p. 193.

3 More than 74 per cent of the Singaporean population is ethnically Chinese, of whom over 34 per cent claim to be Buddhist, 10 per cent Taoist and 16 per cent Christian. However, Confucianism acts as a unifying ethical force, best exemplified by a powerful governmental ideology of social responsibility and inclusiveness that places social values above individual preferences.

4 Roxana Waterson, The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia, Singapore: Tuttle reprint, 2009; first published Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1990, p. xv.

5 The term was originally used in William Lim and Tan Hock Beng’s pioneering study, Contemporary Vernacular: Evoking Tradition in Asian Architecture, Singapore: Select Books, 1998.

6 Waterson, The Living House, p. xvi.