TayKheng Soon has been a professional architect since 1964. He was chairman of Singapore Planning and Urban Research Group (pSPUR) in 1970. SPUR was an independent group examining urban environment and was active in proposing innovative solutions. He was the president of the Singapore Institute of Architects from 1991−93. His professional activities included a specialisation in high density, low rise, low-cost housing in Malaysia. He did pioneering work in commercial centres and shopping centres in the 70s. Currently he is involved in educational and community projects throughout South-East Asia. He started the firm AkitekTenggara in 1976 when it was initially concerned with low-income mass housing. It has since completed commercial, recreational, tourism, urban planning and institutional projects. TKS is famous for his theory of ‘Rubanisation’ which envisages the city and the countryside as one space.