About

READ ARCHITECTURE / ABOUT

READ is an acronym that is adapted to suit each project typology. Our services include: 

• REsearch and Analysis of Design

• REstoration and Adaptive Design

• REnovation and Added Design

• REconstruction and Advance Design

We tell stories through Design. Whichever category of project, Architecture is read like a spatial story to be experienced. At READ Architecture, we believe that every project has a story waiting to be told.  

READ Architecture provides Architectural Conservation, Restoration, and Research services including Historical Research, Architectural Heritage Surveys, Heritage Impact Assessments, and Design evaluations. 

READ's approach to Architecture/Interiors is to craft space as an innovative and sensitive solution to each client's unique requirements.

As designers, we listen first. Our process involves field trips to understand site context, followed by workshops where we engage our clients in dialogue and discussion to hone and refine our designs that are specially tailored to our clients' needs.

The READ Architecture Design philosophy is a balance of form and function in order to achieve Design Practicality. Through a rigorous sense of inquiry, READ Architecture engages each project as an opportunity to create Social Sustainability in terms of place-making, contextualization, and is sensitive towards the use of materials and construction techniques. 

READ Architecture provides a comprehensive design consultancy service, consisting of Architectural and Interior services, Furniture design, and Art conceptualization and installation, which include the initial design concept, schematic design, design development, tender documentation/tender award, project management, and construction completion. 

The Founder and Director of READ Architecture, Yvonne, graduated from the Architectural Association in London (UK). There she discovered Design as a way of seeing, thinking and making.

Yvonne has worked on various local and international projects that range from small to large scale developments. She has been consultant to various National Monuments of Singapore.

Since returning to Singapore in 2010, Yvonne is qualified as an Architect in both Singapore and the United Kingdom, with the Board of Architects (SG) and the Architects Registration Board (UK). As an architect, she believes research and design go hand in hand. She is an adjunct lecturer, having taught at Singapore Polytechnic (SP), Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD), and Lasalle University of the Arts, and has been a juror on numerous architectural panels.

At National University of Singapore (NUS), Yvonne also consults as Adjunct Curator for Architectural Heritage and Conservation. There, she oversees NUS Baba House’s Curatorial and Architectural Conservation, working together with faculty engagement, programmes and outreach.