Pak Chow Chu is recorded as a Singaporean student at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelors degree in architecture in 1958. He subsequently returned to Singapore, where he appears to have taken up a position in the Public Works Department prior to enrolling on the Architectural Association (AA) Department of Tropical Architecture course from September 1959. By the late 1960s he was working within the Singapore Housing and Development Board, having also gained a Diploma in Building from the Bauwcentrum, in Rotterdam. It appears that by the mid-1980s, Chu had entered the private sector, working with the practice ‘Interbuild’, based on Chin Swee Road, Singapore.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1959-60. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes Books, 22nd February, 1960, p401. AA Archives
• National Archives of Australia; Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes ACT 2600.; Inward passenger manifests for ships and aircraft arriving at Fremantle, Perth Airport and Western Australian outports from 1897-1963; Series Number: K 269; Reel Number: 129
• Singapore Standard, 13th February, 1954, p2
• ‘People of Interest’, Hemisphere Vol. 3, No. 7, 1959, p30
• Kalendar of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1965, p.70
• Annual Report of the Housing and Development Board, Republic of Singapore, 1969, p.7
• Royal Institute of British Architects Directory, 1985, pM-67
• Royal Institute of British Architects Directory, 1985, pM-67