Professor Khoo Peng Beng
Head of Pillar, Architecture and Sustainable Design
Professor Khoo Peng Beng is the Head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) pillar and Professor of Practice at SUTD.
Prior to joining SUTD in 2025, Prof Khoo served as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) for over 23 years, where he led multiple international design studios representing NUS and Singapore in architecture and design.
With over 31 years of experience in the architecture field, Prof Khoo is the co-founder of ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism which he established in 1998 with his wife and fellow architect, Belinda Huang. Their architectural practice is renowned for its bold and transformative designs across multiple countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, China, India, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, and Rwanda. One of their most iconic projects, the Pinnacle@Duxton, has redefined high-rise, high-density public housing in Singapore, proving that sustainable, green, and living closer together can be both practical and enjoyable. In recognition of their design excellence, outstanding contributions to the community and inspiring the younger generation, the team was conferred the prestigious President’s Design Award Designer of the Year in 2020. The project has also won several other prestigious awards including the CTBUH Best Tall Building in Asia Australasia, CTBUH Most Sustainable Tall Building Award, World Architecture Festival (WAF) Best Residential Building in the World, FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Award and ULI Award for Excellence 2010.
In 2022, Prof Khoo co-curated the ArchiFest and in 2010, he was the lead curator for the Singapore Pavillion '1000 Singapores: A Model of a Compact City' at the Venice Biennale.
Prof Khoo's research interests spans across quantum consciousness, holarchy, trans-contextuality, deep sustainability, and integral ecology in architecture.