Annabelle Tan is an architect, urban designer and illustrator who is currently practising in Singapore.

Her work explores city-making and its relation to socio-political systems, ranging from dominant regimes to everyday practices. She grounds her design methodology in both technical investigations as well as ethnographic research and architectural writing. Her designs, drawings and models colourfully narrate experimental ways of living that critique our relationship with nature and one another, merging both past cultures, present urban conditions and future technological systems.

Her postgraduate project and thesis, ‘A Journey Through Past, Present and Post-Tropicality’, undertaken at the Bartlett School of Architecture won both the RIBA 2022 Silver Medal for design and the RIBA 2022 Dissertation Medal. While her undergraduate work, ‘Wetland Fronter’, was awarded the RIBA 2019 Bronze Medal for design.