Arthur Seah Peng Chua gained a BArch at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1960, and is recorded as a Singaporean student enrolled on the 1963-64 postgraduate course run by the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Tropical Studies, in London. He successfully completed the course and by 1970 had returned to Singapore, where he is noted as an Executive Architect with the Public Works Department (PWD). By 1974 he had been promoted to Senior Executive Architect and his career appears to have taken off rapidly, reaching the position of Building Co-ordinator for the Changi Airport Passenger Terminal building by 1981. Four years later he had been appointed Deputy Director (Airports), for the Changi Airport Development Division of the PWD. 

Sources 

• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 16th March, 1964. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Victoria Government Gazette, No. 131, February 15th, 1961, p351
• ‘Calendar, 1961’, University of Melbourne, 1961, p.571
• ‘Directory [of] Istana, Parliament, Cabinet, Judiciary, Public Service Commission…’ Republic of Singapore, 1970, p.93
• Singapore Government Directory, 1981. Publicity Division, Ministry of Culture, Republic of Singapore, 181, p155
• Singapore Government Directory, 1985. Publicity Division, Ministry of Culture, Republic of Singapore, 181, p335
• Chua, A.S.P. ‘Control Tower design was the effort of PWD architects’ Singapore Monitor, 2nd February, 1985, p15.