Jason Pomeroy
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| Born |
27 July 1974 United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater |
Canterbury School of Architecture, University of Cambridge University of Westminster |
| Occupation | Architect, Academic, Author, TV personality |
| Website | www |
| Practice | Pomeroy Studio Singapore |
| Buildings |
Idea House, Malaysia Trump Tower Manila, Philippines Newpark, Malaysia B House, Singapore Azure Urban Beach Residences, Philippines (2014) Asian Century Center, Philippines (under construction), Century City, Philippines (2014) |
Professor Jason Pomeroy (born 27 July 1974) is an architect, masterplanner, academic, author, and TV personality. He is the Founding Principal of Singapore-based Pomeroy Studio – an urbanism, architecture, design and research firm described as being at the "forefront of the green agenda". He has held various academic posts and is currently a professor at the University of Nottingham and Università Iuav di Venezia.
Previously, Pomeroy designed Asia’s first carbon-neutral prototype home, the Idea House (Malaysia, 2010), and Singapore’s first operational carbon-negative landed property, the B House (Singapore, 2016). He is ‘one of the world’s leading authorities on skycourts and skygardens’, and is the author of The Skycourt and Skygarden: Greening the Urban Habitat.
He also works to raise awareness of the cultural role architecture plays in society in his popular TV series ‘City Time Traveller’, and ‘City Redesign’ aired throughout Asia and the Middle East.
Jason Pomeroy was born in North West London, and is the only son of an English father and Malaysian mother. He grew up in the UK, though spent his summer months in Malaysia. He cites the lush foliage of his family’s back garden as first sparking his passion for the natural habitat; and the wigwams he built there as a child as his first foray into architecture. A visit with his father to Sir Christopher Wren’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, at the age of eight cemented his passion for architecture and the built environment. It was not until visiting another of Wren’s masterpieces, Trinity College Library whilst studying at the University of Cambridge, that inspired his adoption of passive design techniques that would influence his later projects.
Pomeroy undertook his first and post-graduate degrees in architecture at the Canterbury School of Architecture (1992-1995; 1997-1998). It was during this period that he was drawn to the study of Asian cities (in particular Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore), and how they sought to ‘salvage open space for social amenity, recreation [whilst trying to] retain low carbon footprints - despite their potentially energy intensive, high-density settings’.
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