Prof. Dr. Stephen Cairns

Dr Stephen Cairns is an urban designer, writer, and teacher. He is Professor at Monash Indonesia, Titular Professor at ETH Zurich, and leads the Agropolitan Territories research group at Future Cities Lab (FCL) in Singapore. He has held visiting professorships at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) Harvard University and National University of Singapore. He co-authored Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture (MIT Press 2017), co-edited the Future Cities Laboratory: Indicia series (Lars Müller Press with NUS Press 2017, 2019 and 2022) and designed the Expandable House (Awarded Living Space of Asia Pacific, 2020; nominated for ‘Building of the Year’, 2018 and 2020 Archdaily; and short-listed for Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 2022 cycle.