The Written Archives

Below are past entries of Archemist in the Making. Most of the old entries were brought over from the first blog to keep everything together. I still pop by there once in a while to back up my texts. Feel free to sign up below to keep up to date with what I’ve written!

You can also find my creative writing here and here.

2015
- 22 Nov 2016 The Narrator that Shaped "Architecture" 22 Nov 2016
- 29 Nov 2016 The Hero Phenomena : Dreaming of Built Form 29 Nov 2016
- 6 Dec 2016 The Hero Phenomena: Dreaming of Built Form II 6 Dec 2016
- 12 Dec 2016 You Speak What? 12 Dec 2016
- 20 Dec 2016 Four Walls, One gone 20 Dec 2016
2016
- 8 Apr 2017 The Way We Knew It Left It. Ellipsism Part I 8 Apr 2017
- 27 May 2017 Expectations vs Reality I : The Big Picture 27 May 2017
- 20 Dec 2017 The Hero Phenomena III : Conformity and Stereotype 20 Dec 2017
- 23 Dec 2017 Who Gets A Say. Ellipsism Part II 23 Dec 2017
2017
- 23 Jan 2018 Expectation vs Reality II : "You Had Me At Hello" 23 Jan 2018
- 27 Apr 2018 A*********a : Please Don't Get Up Close And Personal 27 Apr 2018
- 20 Jun 2018 Adventures on Studio Shared 2.0 Part I 20 Jun 2018
- 27 Aug 2018 Adventures on Studio Shared 2.0 Part II 27 Aug 2018
- 27 Aug 2018 Adventures on Studio Shared 2.0 Part III 27 Aug 2018
- 27 Aug 2018 Adventures on Studio Shared 2.0 Part IV (Conclusion) 27 Aug 2018
- 7 Sept 2018 The Hero Phenomena IV : When Will You Be Good Enough? 7 Sept 2018
- 22 Nov 2018 But... Are You Happy? Chapter I 22 Nov 2018
- 27 Nov 2018 But... Are You Happy? Chapter II 27 Nov 2018
- 6 Dec 2018 “Unless we’re looking at the cartesian plane, there is no such thing as Linear my dear...” 6 Dec 2018
2018
- 4 Apr 2019 Expectation vs. Reality III: When the Love Letter Becomes Unwanted 4 Apr 2019
- 8 Apr 2019 "But my dear, it's not always about the money" 8 Apr 2019
- 9 Jun 2019 Architecture for the Homesick 101: Are You Sure You Need A Kitchen or a Laundry? 9 Jun 2019
- 16 Jun 2019 Architecture for the Homesick 101 : Making most of what they've got 16 Jun 2019
- 24 Jun 2019 Architecture for the Homesick 101: We need to talk about your grandparents. 24 Jun 2019
- 9 Jul 2019 Democratising in Design Part I : A Code’s Accessibility, Implications and Precautions 9 Jul 2019
- 16 Jul 2019 Democratising in Design Part II : Attitudes of Implied Design Independence 16 Jul 2019
- 23 Jul 2019 How to ask the right questions? Get a non-architect to do so! 23 Jul 2019
- 30 Jul 2019 Architecture for Two with Lily Jiang (I) : What they don't tell you about Architecture School 30 Jul 2019
- 5 Aug 2019 Architecture for Two with Lily Jiang (II): The lessons we applied during architecture school 5 Aug 2019
- 12 Aug 2019 Architecture for Two with Lily Jiang (III) : The Lessons We Learn After Architecture School 12 Aug 2019
- 10 Sept 2019 Heroine Phenomena V: Hanging On By The Thread of Sanity During Unemployment 10 Sept 2019
- 18 Sept 2019 How will we live together? Part I : On Overthinking the Venice Biennale 18 Sept 2019
- 24 Sept 2019 How will we live together? Part II : Are We Trying To Build A Utopia At Venice Biennale? 24 Sept 2019
- 30 Sept 2019 Architecture of the Media : When One Issue Unconsciously Buries Another 30 Sept 2019
- 7 Oct 2019 The Digital Narrator Of Architecture 7 Oct 2019
- 16 Oct 2019 Just for Laughs: Job Hunting Be Like This Sometimes 16 Oct 2019
2019
- 1 Jan 2020 Words of Affirmation : Identity Crisis 1 Jan 2020
- 12 Jan 2020 Conversation with Eden Hoang: Landscape (&) Architecture 12 Jan 2020
- 23 Jan 2020 Instagram : Today's Architecture Duck and the Decorated Shed 23 Jan 2020
- 29 Jan 2020 I Thought Architect Barbie Was Just Barbie... 29 Jan 2020
- 29 Mar 2020 Social Isolation? I’ve been there, but that was 18 years ago. 29 Mar 2020
- 30 Mar 2020 A Routine to Fulfil - A List. 30 Mar 2020
- 8 Apr 2020 Making that emotional impression for architecture like dramas do...? 8 Apr 2020
- 15 Apr 2020 Architecture of the Media // Covid-19 Oversaturation 15 Apr 2020
- 1 May 2020 Letters to Architects // Dear Le Corbusier... 1 May 2020
- 11 May 2020 Letters to Architects // Dear Robin Boyd 11 May 2020
- 1 Jul 2020 Letters to Artists // Dear Louise Bourgeois 1 Jul 2020
- 22 Jul 2020 Transcript// Approaching Architecture Media (feat. Schema) 22 Jul 2020
- 26 Aug 2020 K-Pop Music Videos Is My Architecture Escape... 26 Aug 2020
- 8 Oct 2020 Reputation: Game of Fame // A Review 8 Oct 2020
- 25 Oct 2020 Talking About Art x Architecture // 02 Photography 25 Oct 2020
2020
- 4 Apr 2021 The Personal Relationship of Architects 4 Apr 2021
- 27 May 2021 In the Mood for Love - Stitches in time through lenses tinted with neon nostalgia 27 May 2021
- 4 Jul 2021 Diary Archived in 35mm 4 Jul 2021
- 30 Dec 2021 Words of Affirmation : A Year On 30 Dec 2021
2021
- 8 Mar 2022 Archimarathon Studio: A Remedy to the Studio Culture Missing in the Digital Realm 8 Mar 2022
- 8 May 2022 Where did written criticisms go? 8 May 2022
- 9 Aug 2022 Girls' Generation 'Forever1' MV - A Review 9 Aug 2022
- 24 Sept 2022 Like Really? You Want Me To Think Like That? 24 Sept 2022
- 28 Dec 2022 Where Writing Builds 28 Dec 2022
- 30 Dec 2022 The Variations Of A Blur - A Year That Has Been 30 Dec 2022
2022
- 7 Aug 2023 Barbie Movie - A Film that I Observed 7 Aug 2023
- 17 Sept 2023 Hero Phenomina VI: When Was The Last Time You Held Your Own? 17 Sept 2023
- 27 Sept 2023 Democratising in Design Part III : Are you sure about the Bot? 27 Sept 2023
- 28 Dec 2023 NGV Triennial III - An explosion of the artists' pallet 28 Dec 2023
- 29 Dec 2023 Past Lives : Chasing Closure through the lenses of what if’s in nostalgia 29 Dec 2023
- 30 Dec 2023 2023: Finding solace in silence 30 Dec 2023
2023
- 22 Apr 2024 The Lines On The Other Side 22 Apr 2024
- 9 May 2024 Do I Have The Right To Teach | Before We Begin 9 May 2024
- 8 Nov 2024 Looking Back: Job Hunting Was And Is Still Really Hard 8 Nov 2024
- 30 Dec 2024 2024: The moment I stopped chasing for closure. 30 Dec 2024
2024
- 1 Jan 2025 NGV 2024-5: Kusama 草間 – a revision of her artistry 1 Jan 2025
- 16 Feb 2025 M+ Museum: A Review 4 Years After Its Coveted Opening 16 Feb 2025
- 19 Jun 2025 Hidden Meadow - A picturesque dreaming 19 Jun 2025
- 23 Aug 2025 Materialists – Tipping between the scales of the head and heart 23 Aug 2025
- 28 Dec 2025 Eternity: Understanding the weight of the word - a film review 28 Dec 2025
- 30 Dec 2025 2025: When your career becomes the walls of your vision 30 Dec 2025
2025
- 1 Mar 2026 Time for makeup is not for you to decide. 1 Mar 2026
- 4 Mar 2026 Sean Godsell’s MPavilion - Re-Imagining Future Potentials 4 Mar 2026
- 14 Mar 2026 Thirty Lessons and Beliefs at Thirty 14 Mar 2026
- 13 May 2026 How do we live together? Lessons from a ‘Learning About Dementia – Experience’ 13 May 2026