Architecture Asia - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2018

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THE PRODUCTION OF THE AAA AWARDS ISSUE
Some of you will have received this special issue of Architecture Asia, featuring the ARCASIA Architecture
Awards, at the Awards presentation ceremony cum dinner. The winners would have just been announced,
and their awards received on stage moments ago. And now, there you have it, a freshly printed copy of
Architecture Asia magazine in your hands while you have your coffee or dessert.
How is this possible? Thanks to Internet, and the many people working behind the scenes.
First and foremost, you have the ARCASIA Awards Convener and the Awards Committee plus the judges
and host country’s secretariat (in this particular instance, the JIA Secretariat) at the front end, organising
the Awards from beginning to the end – calling for entries, juries’ selection, receiving and sorting the
submissions, judging, deliberating, writing citations and juries’ reports… And once the judging and
deliberations are completed, and the winners confirmed, the information is compiled and sent to the
publishing team headed by Alex Choo in Kuala Lumpur. At the PAM Secretariat, we have Norazam Victor
coordinating the submission materials while canvassing for advertisements to fund the whole production
of the current issue. For example, for this issue, we received the first batch of Awards materials from JIA
on 11th July and the last on 27th August, and in between the juries’ and Convener’s reports. Production of
this issue started way before the materials were received, as page layout templates and other aspects were
prepared beforehand. The publishing team also took to preparing all the text – editing and cross-checking
names, facts and more, while the editor-in-chief also started the ball rolling for the Editor’s message.
The final run included colour proof checks with the printer, and a last check by the editor-in-chief, before
the issue finally went to print. Upon the completion of printing, delegates from PAM attending the ARCASIA
meetings and conference then helped out to personally hand-carry copies of this issue from Kuala Lumpur
to Tokyo. Thanks to these special ‘couriers’, the AA publishing team and the printer, you now have this
copy in your hands. Enjoy.
And our heartiest congratulations to all the short-listed entries and the winners from the production team!
LEE CHOR WAH
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ARCHITECTURE ASIA
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