BOOKS@HIKAYAT | THE EVOLUTION OF THE BUILT FORM WITH HUAT LIM

THE EVOLUTION OF THE BUILT FORM
Huat Lim
in conversation with Gareth Richards

Saturday 6 September 2025
7.30–9.00pm

➽ The book

No matter how distinctive the style or ethos, underpinning architecture’s great variety lie a number of categorical typologies. In this book, Huat Lim presents his typological understanding in a series of interconnected essays that reflect on type as a fundamental tool to frame and articulate collective architectural knowledge and how buildings evolve a direct or indirect extension of ourselves.

➽ The author

Huat Lim is an architect based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and co-founder of ZLGDesign. His other books include Automatism in Philosophy, Art and Culture (2022) and Ethos: Biographical Essays, 2015–2023 (2023), published by Suburbia Projects.

Free admission | Refreshments will be served
Signed copies of all Huat Lim’s books will be on sale

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