Suburbia Projects is an architecture books retailer and publisher based out in the suburbs of Petaling Jaya.
Founded in 2020 by Ashran Bahari and Naadiya Hani, Suburbia Projects aims to fill the gaps in critical and meaningful publications in/on Southeast Asian architecture with a strong focus on virtues and values over aesthetics.
Their books are distributed worldwide by Idea Books.
Booth Type: STANDARD BOOTH (MYR 700) - Table with 2 Chairs
Category: Publisher
Genre: Art, Design, Architecture
Website / Link to Portfolio: https://suburbiaprojects.com/
Publication/Work:
1- TYPOLOGY ; The Genealogy of Buildings and Their Emergent Types
No matter how distinctive the style or ethos, underpinning architecture’s great variety lie a number of categorical typologies. In this meditation, Huat Lim presents his typological understanding in a series of interconnected essays that reflect on type as a fundamental tool to frame and articulate collective architectural knowledge.
He suggests that buildings have an evolutionary or genealogical significance as a system of forms that represents our diverse cultures, beyond their mere shape or morphology. Typology thus links architecture to history and particular cultural contexts. In his radical reading, Huat Lim grapples with the classification of buildings based on their function, form, construction and purpose, and argues that how we see buildings is a direct or indirect extension of ourselves, as we evolve the way we live by them and they by us.
The book draws on a large number of carefully selected examples of designs and buildings, ranging from antiquity to the present, and engages with some of the most important thinkers to focus on specific instances of typology in particular texts, cities and projects. In doing so, Huat Lim offers strategies, conceptual tools and critical knowledge to articulate ways of thinking and acting differently. A powerful example of the enormous potential for urban design, Typology offers a new perspective for the ongoing project of creating a transformative built environment and society.
Written by Huat Lim.
Published by Suburbia Projects in collaboration with zeidler&lim publishing.
Editor: Gareth Richards, Eryn Tan
Designer: Suneeda Sisuwan, Zeidler Lim Publishing
ISBN: 978-629-99985-3-2
200 pages, 130 X 200mm, paperback, 2025
2- BETWEEN RAIL AND RIVER; Notes in Time on Kluang
Beginning from an observation of Kluang’s modernist structures, architectural research practice E9A assemble a timely reflection on an ageing fabric on the cusp of redevelopment. Interviews, clippings, and images both real and imagined are collaged to tell a story of Kluang’s fabric loosely and gently. Through the slippages and evocations of human narration, Between Rail and River invites us to reconsider modern ideals of growth and progress, and listen more closely to the histories, realities, and potentials of life beyond metropolitan centers.
Book by E9A Architecture (Hazazi Hamzah, Alia Ahamad, Nazmi Anuar, Aiman Mos Johari (photography) and Daryln Sia (illustrations)
Published by Suburbia Projects
Editor: Wong Jian Lin
Designer: Amanda Gayle
Printed & bound in Malaysia by Vivar Printing Sdn Bhd
ISBN : 978- 629-99985-4-9
124pp, 21 X 29.7cm, paperback, 2025
Suburbia Projects
Suburbia Projects is an architecture books retailer and publisher based out in the suburbs of Petaling Jaya.
Founded in 2020 by Ashran Bahari and Naadiya Hani, Suburbia Projects aims to fill the gaps in critical and meaningful publications in/on Southeast Asian architecture with a strong focus on virtues and values over aesthetics.
Their books are distributed worldwide by Idea Books.
1- TYPOLOGY ; The Genealogy of Buildings and Their Emergent Types
No matter how distinctive the style or ethos, underpinning architecture’s great variety lie a number of categorical typologies. In this meditation, Huat Lim presents his typological understanding in a series of interconnected essays that reflect on type as a fundamental tool to frame and articulate collective architectural knowledge.
He suggests that buildings have an evolutionary or genealogical significance as a system of forms that represents our diverse cultures, beyond their mere shape or morphology. Typology thus links architecture to history and particular cultural contexts. In his radical reading, Huat Lim grapples with the classification of buildings based on their function, form, construction and purpose, and argues that how we see buildings is a direct or indirect extension of ourselves, as we evolve the way we live by them and they by us.
The book draws on a large number of carefully selected examples of designs and buildings, ranging from antiquity to the present, and engages with some of the most important thinkers to focus on specific instances of typology in particular texts, cities and projects. In doing so, Huat Lim offers strategies, conceptual tools and critical knowledge to articulate ways of thinking and acting differently. A powerful example of the enormous potential for urban design, Typology offers a new perspective for the ongoing project of creating a transformative built environment and society.
Written by Huat Lim.
Published by Suburbia Projects in collaboration with zeidler&lim publishing.
Editor: Gareth Richards, Eryn Tan
Designer: Suneeda Sisuwan, Zeidler Lim Publishing
ISBN: 978-629-99985-3-2
200 pages, 130 X 200mm, paperback, 2025
2- BETWEEN RAIL AND RIVER; Notes in Time on Kluang
Beginning from an observation of Kluang’s modernist structures, architectural research practice E9A assemble a timely reflection on an ageing fabric on the cusp of redevelopment. Interviews, clippings, and images both real and imagined are collaged to tell a story of Kluang’s fabric loosely and gently. Through the slippages and evocations of human narration, Between Rail and River invites us to reconsider modern ideals of growth and progress, and listen more closely to the histories, realities, and potentials of life beyond metropolitan centers.
Book by E9A Architecture (Hazazi Hamzah, Alia Ahamad, Nazmi Anuar, Aiman Mos Johari (photography) and Daryln Sia (illustrations)
Published by Suburbia Projects
Editor: Wong Jian Lin
Designer: Amanda Gayle
Printed & bound in Malaysia by Vivar Printing Sdn Bhd
ISBN : 978- 629-99985-4-9
124pp, 21 X 29.7cm, paperback, 2025