smallprojects was born in 2002. Its work involves house, building and utility design…..primarily.
The company is run by Kevin Low who returned to Malaysia and culture shock after nine years in the west with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in architecture, and a minor in art and architectural history. He has lectured at Institutes of Architecture internationally and in the architectural departments of schools in Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. While in the United States, Kevin worked in architectural practices on both East and West coasts after study at the University of Oregon and MIT, duly earning grants for research and fellowships to Italy, North Yemen, Spain and Bangladesh. He joined GDP Architects upon his return to Malaysia, where he remained for the next eleven years, running the r + d and special projects division.
His work while at GDP architects included project branding, budget hotels and highend condominiums, various housing types, a refurbished warehouse for a corporate office, guardhouses, garden memorials, mailboxes and master plans; the last one being the master plan for Sentul in Kuala Lumpur.
Kevin currently divides his time between writing, crafting lectures, teaching architecture at universities internationally, industrial and product design, master plans, highrise towers and small renovations, chapels, crosses, warehousing, cemeteries, temples and toilets, with the essential thread differentiating celebration from critique woven through it all.
He still designs mailboxes.
And unusual houses for unusual clients with an emphasis on what he calls the garden