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The Fantasy of Architecture, Asia’s Ideal City
No Comments April 12th, 2008

Two most significant urban prototypes produced by Modern Movement are Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City - where every family with its own separate home on its own separate acre of land. Wright’s Broadacre City is a prescription for today’s suburbia on a bigger scale.
At first glance, these two prototypes appears [...]



We Shape Our Buildings and Afterwards, Our Buildings Shape Us
3 Comments December 4th, 2007

What did you see? What is above the woman’s head? What element is the backdrop? Researchers showed an identical image to people from East Africa, almost all of those took part in the experiment said the lady was balancing a box on her head, in an African culture where there are few angular visual cues, [...]



Global Marker Alliance against Autodesk Impression
1 Comment May 5th, 2007

Here we go again, the whole computer vs manual drawing / coloring / drafting issue. Yeah, I know drafting software like AutoCAD dulls the mind and somehow gave birth to a whole new generation of uncreative architects. I’m not against manual drawing or coloring, but sometimes things change and we should learn how to adapt [...]



World’s Oldest Profession
1 Comment April 9th, 2007

Self praise is no praise… what ever that means, sometimes I thinks that most architects have this Fxxx-ing ego called - Bullshits. According to TCPalm Lifestyle, architects tout theirs as the world’s second-oldest profession — because the practitioners of the oldest needed a place to ply their trade.
Architecture is more than mere shelter, it is [...]



Home by Famous Architect Is Razed
No Comments January 15th, 2007

Designed in 1972 by Mr. Paul Rudolph, the 4,200-square-foot house went the dodo bird way. The owner of the house decide to build a new home on that plot of land, the best part is the house is on the market for 4 months with no buyer, what happen to Paul Rudolph Foundation? Reminds me [...]



Burj al-Arabi - Dubai Latest Building
1 Comment January 12th, 2007

Dubai oh Dubai, a land with skyscrapers that rivals those in United States. Now, this is the best of the best skyscrapers in Dubai, shaped like a man in traditional Arab cloth, the tower will be located near the Jabil Ali airport in Dubai. Travelers using the airport will be able to see the tower [...]



Building Democracy in Architecture
1 Comment January 4th, 2007

Frank Lloyd Wright was jailed for a day because of his comment on the federal building. I couldn’t agree more on what Frank Lloyd Wright said, no government building should emulate any past civilization and their architecture, federal buildings should make no specific ethnic reference. Democratic architecture is the keyword. Putrajaya in Malaysia is a [...]



The Bok House 1926 - 2006
No Comments December 18th, 2006

The Bok House - (better known as Le Coq D’Or), is situated on 121, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur. It was designed by Swan & Maclaren, built in 1926 and completed in 1929, for Chua Cheng Bok, who is famed as the founder of Cycle and Carriage.
There is a beautifully romantic legend attached to its building [...]



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