CHRISTO MEYER WORKS

NUS DOA Research Seminar

Christo will be presenting his work during a Research Seminar on 6 October 2025.

We Were Never Neutral: 

Design-through-making as Situated Architectural Inquiry

Architecture has never been neutral.  The persistent claim to objectivity and universality has obscured the material, cultural, and political entanglements that shape our built environments.  This seminar advances a practice-based theory of design-through-making as a critical and situated mode of architectural inquiry.  Drawing on his transnational experience across South Africa, the UK, Thailand, and Singapore, Christo Meyer positions making not as the execution of known solutions, but as a generative epistemology:  a way of thinking with materials, communities, and contested contexts.

Design-through-making, in this framing, becomes a research methodology that is embodied, relational, and performative, resisting abstraction and embracing contingency.  This ethos extends into pedagogy and leadership, where the design studio is treated as a laboratory of shared inquiry and the university as a platform for reflexive worldmaking.

The seminar outlines a forward-looking research agenda that includes hybrid material cultures, embedded live projects across Southeast Asia, and multimodal modes of publication that make visible the processes, failures, and social dimensions of design. Through this work, Meyer proposes an expanded model of architectural practice;  one grounded in collaboration, situated knowledge, and critical care.

Against the paradigm of detached problem solving, this talk reframes architecture as a contextual, speculative, and materially engaged form of knowledge production, and calls for a discipline that can think, make, and act otherwise in an increasingly entangled world.

Thesis Lunchtime Forum

Christo will be presenting his research and teaching approaches to M.Arch faculty members and students on Tue 19 August 2025.

The lecture explores the architectural thesis as a site of critical inquiry, where design becomes a mode of research, and making becomes a way of knowing.  Grounded in over 13 years of pedagogical practice across multiple institutions, Christo reflects on an evolving archive of student work developed through Studio Christo Meyer.  Drawing from this body of projects, the talk examines architecture’s capacity to generate narrative knowledge and position design as a form of cultural inquiry.  Anchored in ideas from Lefebvre, Ricoeur, and Ingold, the lecture invites students to see architecture not as [re]solution, but as [re]framing;  a performative and speculative practice rooted in memory, context, and care.  

International Judge

Christo Meyer has been appointed as an international judge for the ASA Experimental Design Competition: Future Nostalgia in Architecture.

Op-Ed in The Singapore Architect

Christo Meyer’s article of Sentosa Sensoryscape by Serie Architects is published in The Singapore Architect magazine (online publication).

AHRA 21st International Conference

Christo Meyer has been selected to present his research paper, Fook Notes 001: What the Fook[?], at the 21st AHRA International Conference in November at Norwich University of the Arts in the UK.

New Teaching Position at NUS DoA

Christo Meyer has accepted a new teaching position as Part-Time Lecturer at the National University of Singapore Department of Architecture (NUS DoA) effective AY 2023-2024.

NUS DoA is the 6th ranked Top Architecture School in the World (QS2022).

METxINDA Wat Potharam School film screened at INDA Assembly

A short film produced by Christo Meyer of the METxINDA Wat Potharam School project recently premiered at INDA Assembly. The annual event showcases films of projects completed during the Design Construction Projects for Communities course.

INDA Parade 2023 (and adieu)

INDA Parade 2023 under the title of NEXT GEN (co-ordinated by James Halliwell, Alexandra Polyakova, and Raphadson Saraputtised) brings together INDA’s community through an annual celebration of final reviews, public lectures, and exhibition. Christo Meyer was interviewed for his take on the contribution that this event makes to INDA’s program. This was also Christo’s last Parade as he will be leaving INDA at the end of the Academic Year.