The theme of Singapore Archifest 2024, in its 18^th edition, continues the project that began with the Singapore Institute of Architect’s Singapore exhibition at the 18^th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2023. At its homecoming, the inverted title, “The Performance of Measurement – When is Enough, Enough?”, re-emphasises architecture’s raison d’etre, in evoking the Intangible in Architecture.

The Intangible is all pervasive in Architecture.

In the first instalment, we focused on Loveability and the Common Good. Buildings and the built environment are designed and built according to measurable and quantifiable standards. Yet a community’s interaction with their environment is intangible and not measured within these same markers. How should we celebrate work that empower and include, that recognise attachment to places and connections to form communities as desired outcomes and key ingredients to consider in design? How could we measure these unmeasurable intangible outcomes to unearth and acknowledge spaces and places that bring about Common Good?