Chris Long

Chris has been a practicing landscape architect since 1994. Starting as a planner/designer at Parks and Recreation Department, he became design lead at the National Parks Board until his departure to the private sector. His most recently completed projects include Mandai Wildlife West, Bird Paradise, 15 Holland Hill and MeyerHouse as well as Parkroyal Marina Bay. Tampines Ave 11, Watten House, Pinetree Hill, Bukit Batok Nature Corridor, Farrer Park Integrated Development, Lim Chu Kang Masterplan, Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment are some of many on – going projects.

As a design thinker and a thinking designer, he believes in the theory of practice and the practise of theory. He designed and developed design thinking and problem -solving training programmes, successfully marketing these and achieving over 98% closing rate with more than 50 MNC and public sector clients such as Keppel Ltd, ST Engineering, Singapore Police Force etc. Walking the talk, he continues to deliver landscape design with a deep understanding of what keeps his clients awake at night, nurturing design empathy through user and client engagement, field observation and critical insights. Chris’ current research interest lies in the collective unconscious of landscape and how landscape memes can potentially be an archaeological source for the understanding of this collective unconscious. He believes in uncovering these for the purpose of contributing to evidence -based design of our urban/natural environment for building liveable resilient cities.