Yut Choon Ho was born in Singapore in 1928 and from 1948 studied Civil Engineering at the Catholic University of America, in Washington DC. In 1953 he moved to London, enrolling at the Architectural Association, where he joined Year 4 of the Diploma Course and, as part of his final year’s studies, in 1954-55, was part of the first cohort of the newly formed AA Department of Tropical Architecture. Almost immediately upon graduation he seems to have moved back to Singapore and by 1966 is recorded as working on the development of a 5 storey building on South Bridge Road, as Singapore offices for Malaysia’s ‘Development and Commercial Bank’. It is unclear as to whether this project was under the auspices of the Malayan Architects Co-Partnership but by 1971 Ho was working with their successor practice, Architects Team 3 and was jointly responsible for the design of Robina House, one of the famous ‘three sisters’ tower-blocks built on Shenton Way in the so-called ‘Golden Shoe’ area of Singapore following the 1968 land sales programme by the Urban Renewal Department. Norman Edwards and Peter Keys also note Ho as having been involved in the design of the Ridgewood Condominium, with the Design Partnership, c1981-82. 

Sources:

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Diploma Roll Book, 1924-1963, AA Archives
• Department of Tropical Architecture, student listing, Otto Koenigsberger Collection, Box 27, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Members List, 1961.
• ‘In Washington’, Singapore Standard, 20 January 1953, Page 7
• The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; Series Title: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving At Boston, Massachusetts, January 1944 - November 1954; NAI Number: 2668739; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: 85; Series Number: A3604; NARA Roll Number: 10
• The National Archives, London, UK; Board of Trade: Commercial and Statistical Department and Successors: Inwards Passenger Lists; Class: Bt26; Piece: 1302; Item: 206
• H.S. Lee Private Papers, Folio HSL.025. D. & C. Bank: Formation 1965-66, Item Nos: HSL.025.137a-c, Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS) Library, Singapore.
• Edwards, N., Keys, P. Singapore: A Guide To Buildings, Streets, Places, Times Books International, 1988, p590.