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Chee Kien writes about the histories of art, architecture, settlements, urbanism, and landscapes in Southeast Asia. He muses on their ineluctable effects on contemporary life, and traverses its times and spaces whenever he can. His publications include A Brief History of Malayan Art (1999), Building Merdeka: Independence Architecture in Kuala Lumpur (2007), Cords to Histories (2013), Through the Lens of Lee Kip Lin (2015) [Best Non-Fiction Title, 2016], Building Memories: People, Architecture, Independence (2016) [Book of the Year], and The Merdeka Interviews: Architects, Engineers and Artists of Malaysia’s Independence (2018, co-authored with Ang Chee Cheong).

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Building Merdeka: Independe...

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