The firm was established in 1991 by Richard Ho upon his return to Singapore after working for six years in Austria and Italy – with Helmut Schimek in Austria and Aldo Rossi in Milan, a world renowned Architect and Pritzker Prize Recipient 1990. His work has been awarded prizes in a number of architectural competitions. He has been awarded a GOLD MEDAL in the ARCASIA (Architects Regional Council of
Asia) Architecture Awards 1999 – 2000. The ARCASIA Architecture Award is an Asian-wide award held biennially to acknowledge exemplary architectural works in Asia. Richard is the first Singaporean architect to be accorded this honour. His practice has won the the Singapore Institute of Architects Design Awards 7 times – the highest accolade for excellence in architectural design in Singapore and has been awarded the Urban Redevelopment Authority Architectural Heritage Awards 4 times. In the year 2000, Richard was awarded a Honourable Mention in the Kenneth F. Brown Asia Pacific Culture and Architecture Design Award, an international architectural award program, which sought works of architecture that created a quality environment for the people and contributed in a holistic way to their well being. Besides practising architecture, Richard is also appointed as Professor in Practice with the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore and teaches Architecture and Urban Design in the NUS Master of Architecture course. Richard is one of seventy visual artists, film directors and architects invited to exhibit his works at the “Cities on the Move” exhibition at the Secession Museum in Vienna in November 1996. This exhibition was subsequently staged in Bordeaux, France; new York, USA; Copenhagen, Denmark; London, UK; and Helsinki, Finland.
