Curtin University Architecture and Planning

February 15, 2007 · Filed Under Life Log · 2 Comments
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That’s me in black, well… Curtin University is indeed impressive. Architecturally wise the overall concept is beautiful. Kind of like it, I mean the Brutalist architecture, the exposure of raw concrete, the celebration of concrete. I am a big fan of Tadao Ando, I guess concrete runs in my blood, face bricks, steels, glass, and timber too.

Brutalist buildings usually are formed with striking repetitive angular geometries, and often revealing the textures of the wooden forms used to shape the material, which is normally rough, unadorned poured concrete. Not all Brutalist buildings are formed from concrete. Instead, a building may achieve its Brutalist quality through a rough, blocky appearance, and the expression of its structural materials, forms, and services on its exterior. – Wikipedia on Brutalist

Curtin University Architecture and Planning
And so I paid a visit to the Architecture and Planning building, it is kind of spooky in there – Brutalist. I guess in western country Brutalist is an acceptable architecture style but back home in Malaysia, a building that looks like Brutalist simply means – minimalist, or better known as “cost saving” or in a polite way would translate as “minimalist” or “cheap-skate”

Some sculpture by Howard Taylor at the entrance of Architecture and Planning, its called “Cyclops”. The idea is about sea shell form and flowing ocean, its about the ability to survive and operate in an ever changing environment… blah blah…