Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre for Architectural and Urban Heritage

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE – 50^th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS

Soft Launch of Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre for Architectural and Urban Heritage (TTCL-Center)

Date: 21 November 2008

Venue: 54 and 56 Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Malacca

In the line towards progress, the Department of Architecture has not jettison the awareness of the roots and culture of place. A generous donation from Ms Agnes Tan, the daughter of Tun Tan Cheng Lock, enabled the purchase of two houses along Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock in Malacca. They are now being restored and adaptively re-used for the careful study of conservation, analysis of construction techniques and a close study of architectural culture and heritage. After months of works, the Department of Architecture is organizing a soft launch on 21 November 2008 at 54 and 56 Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock, Malacca.

The Centre is envisioned to be a resource center and a field school with facilities for academic exchanges among scholars and students coming from all parts of the world. It is located strategically in the recently declared World Heritage City, Malacca where various civilizations met, blended, and manifested into the cosmopolitan characters of its architecture and urban culture along its history.

(Quoted from Note of the HOD-Architecture)