Join us in May for the BALT Fellowship Lecture!
Robin is currently a student at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and travelled to London to pursue research exploring the beginnings and institutionalization of post-colonial urban planning in Southeast Asia. Among Robin’s areas of interest are the collections of town planner Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, particularly Tyrwhitt’s papers relating to her position as a U.N. advisor to the Bandung Institute of Technology to establish a program in city and regional planning in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the creation of an urban planning program in Singapore. As part of his earlier research relating to the architecture of post-independence in Southeast Asia, Robin traveled to Indonesia to study housing patterns as a Fung Scholar through the support of the Harvard Asia Center, and, more recently, has continued his research with a grant from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. Robin co-taught the Connections studio, a design studio in the undergraduate architecture program at Harvard College (in recent years, this studio has typically been led by a pair of advanced GSD students).