Kenneth Yeang, arsitek pelopor bio-klimatik Asia
Kenneth Yeang dilahirkan di Penang, Malaysia. Dia mengambil kuliah arsitektur di the Architectural Association of London, dan di University of Cambridge, where he did his doctoral thesis on ecological design. His research deals with the ecological factors in the construction environment and their integration into architectural design. The application of theoretical principles to ecological and bioclimatic architectural conception offers new structures and an alternative to the too often anonymous and high-energy consumption design of the skyscrapers built around the world.
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IBM Office, Subang Jaya (Malaysia),
Kenneth Yeang architect.
His firm, Hamzah and Yeang, has realised numerous projects among which bioclimatic skyscrapers using passive energy, that have received a multitude of awards including the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1995) and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects' International Award (1997 and 1999). In 1999 he received the UIA's Auguste Perret Prize untuk aplikasi technologi pada arsitektur.
Kenneth Yeang has served as President of the Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) and on the Council of the Architects' Regional Council of Asia (ARCASIA). .

Bahan Pustaka: Malaysian Embassy