Architectural Styles of Contemporary Universities

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Architectural Styles of Contemporary Universities
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You know, the last paragraph on the architecture style of universities is sort of true – “… to convince alumni and parents they’re getting their money’s worth.”

A good learning environment is important, which is something sorely lacking in a number of Malaysia’s local universities – lousy facilities, bias lecturers, bias system based on the colour of your skin. What amazed me is the unreasonable idea by the Dean of university with petty stuff such as dress code, for instant male students are required to wear long sleeves, leather shoe, and long pants in XXX ‘university of I translated your phd research from english to the malay language and claimed it as mine’.

They are so preoccupation with the idea of dress code to the extend that a private university mooted the same idea, citing that this would improve the students discipline and further enhance the quality of education. Here is an interesting story I heard from a friend of mine, according to her, a female student in the Islamic International University in Malaysia was told to dress decently according to the Muslim dress code:

Dean: ‘Why are you not wearing your head scarf?’
Female student: ‘It is just too hot and humid in Malaysia.’
Dean: ‘Do you know that hell is hotter?’

Anyway, while I was reading about the history of Gothic architecture and gargoyles, I stumble upon some really interesting facts. Gothic architecture was called “French Style” (Opus francigenum) by the Germans, this is actually an insult because back in the good old days ‘Goth’ meant rude, barbarian or barbaric, and it certainly does because the Renaissance in Italy gave birth to the new age classical architecture.

The Renaissance architects, who disliked the style, started calling it “Gothic” and the name stuck.

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  • ^ Architecture - Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
  • ^ Architect - An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use.
  • ^ Pritzker Architecture Prize - The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture".
  • ^ - Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, Dover Publications(1985). ISBN 0-486-25023-7
  • ^ - Rondanini, Nunzia Architecture and Social Change Heresies II, Vol. 3, No.

Comments:


  1. jwalker
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    F.Y.I. ‘Goth’ came from the name of the barbarian tribes known as Visigoths- who sacked rome- hence the Italian disdain.

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