Biography ken yeang green design

"I AM AN ECOLOGIST FIRST, AND ARCHITECT SECOND."

Ken Yeang has an international reputation as a pioneer in the development of ecological (sustainable), bioclimatic (climate-responsive) buildings.

The high-rise building type has undergone major design developments since it first appeared more than a century ago, and Yeang, together with his business partner, Tengku Robert Hamzah, have been instrumental over the past 20 years in introducing an entirely new genre - in particular, the 'green skyscraper', besides other building types.

Their international architects' firm, Hamzah & Yeang, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with offices in London, UK, and China, has been the focus of this avant-garde work.

Ken Yeang explains the philosophy underlying his work as follows: "We have to build in harmony with the natural world.

Our goal must be not simply to slow the present rate of environmental impairment, but to eliminate it entirely. For example, w