Ai Tee GOH

Dr. Ai Tee Goh
VICE-PRESIDENT

Dr. Ar. Ai Tee Goh has special interest on housing and heritage. She set up A T GOH ARCHITECT (SP/G 45), a sole proprietorship architectural practice in 2011. She believes that a successful building work resulting in the ways of conduct, dedicated teamwork which include active collaboration amongst stockholders. She obtained her PhD in year 2010 from University of Liverpool titled ‘Potential of courtyard housing as solution for creating family housing in urban area in the UK’. Her mini dissertation during her B(Arch) and BSc (Arch) on heritage buildings are Blue Mansion in Penang and the Oldest Chinese Temple in Johor. She has participated in community led heritage conservation project in Fez, Morocco in year 2009, then assisting in 3D drawings for selected historical public bath in MENA cities in year 2010. From 2011 to 2013, she involved in four Traditional Village Rehabilitation Projects in Saudi Arabia, and participated in community building workshops in Penang. In year 2015, she attended the workshop on safeguarding Outstanding Universal Values in Penang.

Since joining ICOMOS Malaysia in year 2015, she has been an active member of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Shared Built Heritage (ISCSBH), participating and organizing study tours. In 2020, she sits in as one of the Reviewer for abstracts/ papers submitted to the ICOMOS 2020 Scientific Symposium (Shared Heritage category). She contributed to chapters relating to traditional housing and housing development in Kuala Lumpur on the KLSP2020-2040 Review Group. Apart from being an ICOMOS Malaysia Emerging Professional member initiating the Heritage School Rehabilitation Program for ICOMOS Malaysia EPWG in year 2020 and being moderator for mini symposium at the Courtyard Heritage Assembly organized in year 2022.

She is Board Member of ICOMOS Malaysia since 2020. She Chairs the ICOMOS Malaysia New Village Working Group set up since March 2020 with aims to study the potential of showcasing selected New Villages as National Heritage as well as candidates for UNESCO World Heritage Listing.

Recente publications

  • 2022 - ICOMOS Malaysia New Village Working Group (NVWG), Report 1 (15 May 2022).
    Technical Report. ICOMOS Malaysia New Village Working Group, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 251p. (https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2703/)
    - Home Guard in Malaya, p. 61-74
    - Cha’ah New Village in Johor Malaysia: A Unique Rural Cultural Landscape with Colonial -Planning Idea and Community Architecture, p.75-138
    - Town Planning in New Villages in Malaya: A Case Study on Cha’ah New Village, Johor, p.139-155
  • 2021 - Isa, Mariana, Yong, Chee Keat, Azhari, Afzal, Kamaludin, Azzat, Nik Muhammad,
    Nik Mastura, Shahidan, Shaiful Idzwan, Thang, Boon Ann, Steven, Wong, See Huat, 
    Chuo, Dominic, Goh, Ai Tee, Abd Sukor, Mohd Azmi, Jamaluddin, Mohd Radzi, Yunos, Naimran, Malek, Bukhari and Tawang, Maulud (2021) Ringkasan Keperluan Konservasi Rumah Beserah (Conservation Statement for Beserah Resthouse). Working Paper. ICOMOS Malaysia, Malaysia, 64p. (https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2517/)
  • 2020 - Isa, Mariana, Goh, Ai Tee, Abdul Majid, Hajeedar, Yuen, Anne, Abdul Rahman, Faisal, Shahidan, Shaiful Idzwan, Che Amat, Rohayah, Mohd Ali, Rosli, Koh, John, 
    Mat Radzuan, Indera Syahrul, Kamal, Mustapha and Sharuddin, Shahariah Norain (2020) The Kuala Lumpur Heritage Agenda: Reviews and Recommendations for the Kuala Lumpur Draft Structure Plan 2040 & Kuala Lumpur City Plan 2020 by ICOMOS Malaysia. Discussion Paper. ICOMOS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 99p (https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2401/)

Recente presentations

  • 2022 - Nomination Site of Cha’ah New Village, in Symposium titled Second Glance: New Vision for New Village. Pencalonan Kampung Baru Di Malaysia Sebagai Tapak Warisan Dunia UNESCO (12-14 August 2022)
  • 2022 - Research on New Villages as the Representative of Malayan Historic New Villages, in Symposium titled Second Glance: New Vision for New Village. Pencalonan Kampung Baru Di Malaysia Sebagai Tapak Warisan Dunia UNESCO (12-14 August 2022)
  • 2022 - Housing for the People: An Overview of Housing Provision in Kuala Lumpur (1901 to 2020), in Webinar Karnival KL Dulu, 12-13 March 2022
  • 2021 - Heritage Schools: In Shaping the ‘KL Identity’, Perekabandar Urban Talk #5, KL identity and heritage at the crossroads: The plight of Convent Bukit Nanas, 25 April 2021. (to view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2yC_OjlCEE)
  • 2020 - Courtyard Housing: A Typology for Sustainable Urban Development? Hokdulu Talks, ICOMOS Malaysia Emerging Professional’s Program, 28 Nov 2020
    (to view, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixap5zJ3ox8)
  • 2020 - Review on Draft KL Structure Plan 2040 – Housing, in Public Hearing session organised by DBKL, Bilik Mesyarat Utama, DBKL Tower 1, 27 July 2020
  • 2019 - ‘The Role of Emerging Professionals on National Committee Boards: the Malaysia and Spanish Examples, ICOMOS National Committees Meeting, 15 Oct 2019, Marrakesh Morocco. The report prepared by Tiong Kian Boon, Goh Ai Tee and Mariana Isa (ICOMOS Malaysia), Alicia Castillo Mena, Mikel Landa Esparza, and Clara Villalba Montaner (ICOMOS Spain)

Recente study tours and workshops

  1. Study Tour to Shared Built Heritage in Thailand and Ayutthaya. Co-organiser with International Scientific Committee on Shared Built Heritage, International Council of Monuments and Sites, 31 Oct 2022 to 5 Nov 2022.
  2. Study Tour and Workshops to Shared Built Heritage in Morocco (Marrakesh, Essaouira, Safi, El Jadida, Casablanca, Rabat, Tangier and Tetouan). Co-organiser with International Scientific Committee on Shared Built Heritage, International Council of Monuments and Sites, 18 Oct 2019 to 1 Nov 2019.
  3. Study Tour and Symposium to Shared Built Heritage in Estonia, Finland, Russia Organised by International Scientific Committee on Shared Built Heritage, International Council of Monuments and Sites, 4-21 June 2018
  4. Study Tour and Symposium to Bengal India - Europe along the Hooghly River: Serampore (Danish), Chandannagar (French), Chinsurah (Dutch) and Bandel (Portuguese), Organised by ICOMOS India East Zone and International Scientific Committee on Shared Built Heritage, International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), 1-8 Dec 2017
  5. Study Tour to Architecture of Meiji-, Taisho- and Showa Period in Japan, Organised by International Scientific Committee on Shared Built Heritage, International Council of Monuments and Sites, Oct 2015 to 25th Oct 2015
  6. Workshop on Safeguarding Outstanding Universal Values, by Dr Donal Ellsmore, 11-13 March 2015, Teochew Association Hall, Penang, Organised by George Town World Heritage Inc., Penang.
  7. Workshop and Field Trip with the Year 5 Architecture Students from Manchester School of Architecture, UK on Traditional Courtyard Housing in Fez, Morocco from 23-27 October 2011 organised by Dr Magda Sibley, Director or Postgraduate Research, School of Environment and Development, the University of Manchester, UK
  8. Community Building in Penang Heritage Sites Workshop from 19-21 September 2011 organised by Asian Coalition for Housing Right, Think City Sdn Bhd, Penang Heritage Trust, George Town World Heritage Incorporated, and Arts-ED
  9. Community Architect Meeting from 15-16 September 2011 organised by Asian Coalition for Housing Right
  10. Regional Community Architects Meeting: Chiang Mai, Thailand from 13-16 June 2010 organised by Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR)
  11. AHRC Project:The Historic Hammams of North Africa and their Survival into the 21st Century. To assist Dr Magda Sibley and Dr FodilFadli in 3-Dimensional Digital Model for 5 Hammams; HammamSidna, Algiers, HammamSahabTabaa, Tunis, HammamTanbali, Cairo, HammamDarghut, Libya and HammamQannaria, Marrakesh.
  12. Hammamed Project: Raising awareness for the hammam as a cultural heritage for the Mediterranean area and beyond, under RMSU Euromed Heritage IV Programme. To assist Dr Magda Sibley in 3-Dimensional Digital Model for Hammam Al Seffarine, Fez, Morocco.

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