Annabelle Tan Kai Lin

Annabelle Tan is an architect, urban designer and illustrator who is currently practising in Singapore.

Her work explores city-making and its relation to socio-political systems, ranging from dominant regimes to everyday practices. She grounds her design methodology in both technical investigations as well as ethnographic research and architectural writing. Her designs, drawings and models colourfully narrate experimental ways of living that critique our relationship with nature and one another, merging both past cultures, present urban conditions and future technological systems.

Her postgraduate project and thesis, ‘A Journey Through Past, Present and Post-Tropicality’, undertaken at the Bartlett School of Architecture won both the RIBA 2022 Silver Medal for design and the RIBA 2022 Dissertation Medal. While her undergraduate work, ‘Wetland Fronter’, was awarded the RIBA 2019 Bronze Medal for
design.

Awards and Accomplishments

2023

• Exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Show 2023
• ‘Kampong Port Cities’ Exhibition, in collaboration with the Oval Partnership

2022

• RIBA Silver Medal 2022
• RIBA Dissertation Medal 2022
• Archisource Environmental Award 2022
• Sir Banister Fletcher Prize and Medal for Top Graduating Student (Postgraduate)
• Ambrose Poynter Prize for Top Thesis
• Bartlett School of Architecture Medal

2021

• RIBA Journal Eye Line 2021 Award, First Prize
• Bartlett History and Theory Prize
• Bartlett Design Realisation Prize

2020

• RIBA Bronze Medal 2019
• RIBA Award for Sustainable Design 2019
• Donaldson Medal for Top Graduating Student (Undergraduate)
• Fitzroy Robinson Drawing Prize
• Trevor Sprott Prize for Distinguished Work in History and Theory
• Environmental Design Prize
• Bartlett School of Architecture Medal