Architecture and Affect: Precarious Spaces (2023) argues that an affective understanding of place in Singapore recovers the value of what a hyper-capitalist, hyper-efficient and technocratic city represses: the customs, taboos and hauntings that collide with urban systematization, and the ingenuity and agency brewing beneath compliance. Detecting evidence architecture would not normally admit (anecdotes, hearsay, the residues of disorderly situations, clues that have yet to cohere), this book advances affect theory in the discipline by reading three spatial typologies through their precarity, both physical and emotional. It shows how people fashion their own modes of belonging, how they manage anxiety and hold up hope. Six chapters are paired across three ascending scales: “Monument” (the Raffles Hotel, the Tanjong Pagar Railway Station), “Block” (public housing’s void decks and corridors, and its nominal unmarried citizens in the essay film 03-FLATS) and “Landscape” (Bukit Brown Cemetery, the sea as infrastructure). Between each pair sits a “Third Archive”, an image-essay of “dirty drawings” and models speculating in the archive’s gaps. Words, drawings and photographs carry equal weight. The affective journey they stage unsettles what is known of this intense island-city-nation-state. It thickens the city’s contradictions and puts the reader in-the-midst of how Singapore’s order is lived and negotiated, recovering from architecture’s dismissed evidence the city dwellers’ impulse to feel human and alive, and architecture’s capacity to hold and provoke it.