Scholarly Publications
‘As I sat musing amidst the ruins: The Grand Tour and Architecture.’ The Grand Tour. Exhibition Catalogue. Archives and Special Collections, University of Melbourne. July, 2025.
‘Ordered Spaces: Classicism and the Construction of Racial Difference in Colonial Singapore’. In The Routledge Critical Companion to Race and Architecture, edited by Felipe Hernández and Itohan Osayimwese. London: Routledge, 2025.
Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific: Built Traces of Intercolonial Trade, Industry and Labour, 1800s-1950s. Amanda Achmadi, Paul Walker & Soon-Tzu Speechley (Eds). London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024.
‘Building Networks: Professional Mobility and the Migration of Architects in the Imperial World.’ In Ibid. Co-authored with Julie Willis.
‘An Empire of Fellows, Associates, and Licentiates: Architectural Mobilities, Allied Societies and the RIBA’. Paper presented at EAHN 2024, 19-24 June 2024, NTUA, Athens, Greece. Co-authored with Julie Willis.
Malayan Classicism: From the Architecture of Empire to Asian Vernacular. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.
‘Muddying the Waters: Complicating Narratives through Global Architectural History’. JSAH 82.3 Roundtable: Dialogues on the Global within and beyond Australasia (September 2023).
‘Professional Entanglements: British Colonial Networks of Architecture’. Paper presented at the Annual SAHGB Conference: Constructing Coloniality, 12-14 May 2023, The Bartlett School of Architecture, London, England. Co-authored with Julie Willis.
‘The Shophouses of British Malaya’. In Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQIA+ Places and Stories, edited by Adam Nathaniel Furman and Joshua Mardell. London: RIBA Publishing, 2022.
‘They Will Not Suffer a Church More Beautiful Than Their Own: The Chinese as Patrons of Ecclesiastical Architecture in Early Twentieth-Century Singapore’. In East Asian Architecture in Globalisation, edited by Subin Xu, Nobuo Aoki, and Bébio Vieira Amaro. Basel: Springer, 2021. Co-authored with Yeo Kang Shua.
‘Using Image Processing to understand 20th-century architectural colour schemes in Singapore’. in Macro to Micro: Examining Architectural Finishes, edited by Mary Jablonski & Kirsten Travers Moffitt (eds.). London: Archetype Books, 2018. Co-authored with Yeo Kang Shua, Tan U-Xuan, Lawrence Chin & Achala Athukorala.
Book Reviews
Review of The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes in the Asia-Pacific edited by Kapila D. Silva. Fabrications 34.2 (August 2024): pp. 437-439.
Review of Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam by Christina Schwenkel. Sojourn 37.1 (March 2022): pp. 159-61.
Review of Contested Space Revisited: George Town, Penang Before and After UNESCO World Heritage Listing by Gwynn Jenkins. Fabrications 31.2 (June 2021): pp. 299-302.
Invited Lectures, Panels & Exhibitions
Melbourne General Cemetery: Our Quiet Neighbour. Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning Library, University of Melbourne, 2025. Co-curated with Wendy Walls & Naomi Mullumby.
Book Launch: Architectural Encounters in Asia-Pacific, The Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage, Melbourne, 6 November 2024.
Book Launch: Malayan Classicism, Urban Redevelopment Authority and NUS ArCLab, Singapore, 15 July 2024.
‘Whose Land is it Anyway?’, (Panelist), Working Heritage, Melbourne, 3 June 2024.
‘Eclecticism and Ornament in Malaya’s Vernacular Classicism’, Victorian and Edwardian Architecture in the Wider British World: Victorian Society Online Winter Talk Series, Victorian Society, 28 February 2024.
‘Writing Diverse Histories of Architecture’, Matrix Panel Discussion, Melbourne School of Design, 18 October 2023.
‘Public Space Picnic\Saving’, Public Space Picnic Series, Melbourne Centre for Cities, 30 March 2022.
‘Malayan Classicism’. Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Seminar Series. 19 April 2021.
Radio, Podcasts & Media Interviews
‘City of mashups: Kuala Lumpur’s cool architectural heritage’, by Joseph Rachman, Nikkei Asia, 14 May 2025.
‘Architectural Encounters in the Asia Pacific with Zhengfeng Wang, Amanda Achmadi, Paul Walker, and Soon-Tzu Speechley’, The Channel, International Institute for Asian Studies Podcast, Season 1, Episode 48, 24 April 2025.
‘Weekender–Malaysia. Preserving the Past’, by Francheska Melendez, Konfekt, Issue 18 (Spring 2025).
‘Malayan Classicism: The History of Classical Architecture in Singapore’, The Historyogi Podcast, Episode 40, 10 February 2025.
‘Object of Desire: Soon-Tzu Speehley’s Clifton Brick’, on Blueprint for Living with Jonathan Green, ABC Radio National, 30 March 2024.
‘Kampung spirit: A journey through Malaysia’s traditional village life’, BBC Storyworks, 20 September 2023.
‘Constructing Coloniality: Architects and Empire’, Architectural History: The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Podcast, 9 May 2023.
‘Kuala Lumpur – would you like rubber with that?’, on Return Ticket, ABC Radio National, 28 October 2022.
‘Surveying Malaysia and Singapore’s “creole classicism”,’ on Blueprint for Living with Jonathan Green, ABC Radio National, 23 October 2021.
‘Penang split over transport infrastructure plan,’ by Kate Mayberry, Nikkei Asia, 13 October 2016.
Peer Review
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies and Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press); Fabrications and Heritage & Society (Taylor & Francis); The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction (Routledge); Charette: Journal of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE); Bloomsbury; ICOMOS and UNESCO.
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