page_title: Tan Loke Mun
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Tan Loke Mun / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: S11 House is the first GBI platinum rated green house in Malaysia.
context_page_description: Dr. Tan Loke Mun is the founding Director of ArchiCentre Sdn. Bhd, DTLM Design Group and principal of DrTanLM Architect, architectural design studios in Subang Jaya, Malaysia. He is best known for having designed the first Green Building Index Platinum rated house in Malaysia, the S11 House.
context_section_description: Born and raised in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Tan Loke Mun obtained his architectural training from Deakin University, Australia in the 1980s and later received his doctorate from The University of Melbourne, Australia. His doctoral studies was in social and self-help housing and he has worked in many urban and rural parts of Australia, Uruguay and Argentina.
  He founded ArchiCentre in 1994.
  He is a past president of the Malaysian Institute of Architects 2005-2007 (PAM), team leader who set up Green Building Index Malaysia (GBI), past chairman of the LAM-PAM Green Building and Sustainability Committee, past member of the GBI Accreditation Panel (GBIAP) and also a member of the Board of Architects Malaysia.
  The S11 House is Malaysia’s first Green Building Index Platinum rated work for domestic architecture. It won the Tropical Building Category of the Asean Energy Awards in 2013, the Futurarc Green Leadership Award 2012, Gold medal in the Edge-PAM Green Home Award 2011,  Gold Medal for the PAM-Edge Residential Award 2011, Winner of PAM Architectural Steel Colourbond Award 2011, Gold winner for Residential and Sustainable Categories of Asia Pacific Design Excellence Awards 2011 and Finalist for World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2012. The S11 House while not the firm's largest project, it has been one of the firm's biggest ideological successes.
  Dr Tan’s works are widely published and he has received numerous Architectural Awards for his works. He lectures widely on Architecture and Design, and is Adjunct Professor at University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, and also industry advisor to Taylors University and Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.
caption: S11 House is the first GBI platinum rated green house in Malaysia.
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