floating mosque

melaka

another "floating" type of mosque...

do we need it anymore...

sabah

penang

terengganu

what is a mosque??

does the elements of dome represent islamic ?

what is islamic arch?

http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2006/11/5/lifeliving/15909747&sec=lifeliving

http://www.islamicarchitecture.org/architecture/themosque.htm

PJ once said..

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business..."

Philip Johnson

(RIP 2005)

dosa siapakah ini...

dosa siapakah ini....

bandingkan 2 imej berikut: pelik tetapi nyata kerana kota yang dibina di kuala kedah mempunyai ciri-ciri yang sama dengan pembinaan kota-kota pada zaman pertengahan di eropah atau tinggalan sejarah dari senibina "moorish" ...sedangkan binaan di kuala kedah tersebut di bina pada abad milenium...tidakkah kita ingin tahu siapakah arkitek yang telah merealisasikan ide ini...persoalannya, mengapakah ide sedemikian yang datangnya daripada golongan professional..sanggup melacurkan "imej seni bina tempatan"...terlalu jauh perkaitannya diantara ruang dan masa di antara kedua-dua imej tersebut...apatah lagi jika konteks persekitaran dan budaya diambil kira...ermmm...sedih dan pilu bila seni pada "senibina" dibuang sehingga menjadi "bina" sahaja...bina apa sajalah...asalkan faktor RM yang dipentingkan...hilanglah "seni" dalam "senibina"...

apakah yang dibayangkan oleh arkitek yang merekabentuk binaan ini...sebuah kota medieval di lokasi perkampungan nelayan di kuala kedah...???..."perlacuran senibina" adalah satu ide yang pernah diperdengarkan oleh seorang pensyarah dan kenalan dari UTM...ide-ide pengamal senibina atau "practitioners" yang bergini sebenarnya seolah-olah menikam dari belakang tentang ide pembentukan senibina malaysia...

apakah yang boleh dipelajari oleh pelajar-pelajar jurusan senibina sekiranya binaan tersebut dijadikan "case study"...sering diperkatakan didalam studio rekabentuk, "your design...the idea is lost somehow interms of form, function and contextual elements"... sedangkan dalam situasi sekarang, apa sahaja boleh dibina asalkan mendapat sokongan politikus atau klien yang sanggup membayar...jadi mengapa institusi pembelajaran sahaja yang sering di"kambing hitam"kan tentang pembelajaran senibina sedangkan situasi "apa yang dibelajar tidak sama seperti praktis"...
banyak lagi binaan-binaan "out of context" yang telah dibina dan mungkin akan dibina pada masa akan datang...
mungkinkah patut dijalakan satu kajian atau satu anugerah "turkey of the year" untuk "binaan yang sewaktu dengannya"...

p/s: ali setan - takkanlah pakai samping, baju melayu...tapi pakai topi koboi?

Ayam Brand Architecture

institutions that privately offering "architecture" education as it is becoming like a very good strategy to initiate incomes..ermm...just by adding the "the text" as part of the program then..ka-blam!...one "architecture-based" program is on the way to the market...basically, this kind of "brand" managed to "mengeliru dan memperdayakan" the student...lot of tales of happiness and successful career path can be achieved thru "the brand"...some were being induced or may i qoute "seduced" to take this path as basically it leads to a "professional" tagline..(aren't we?)...unfortunately, the students now is trapped inside a "bubu" (traditionally handcrafted fish trap made of bamboo)...

they can't afford to get out (1% still managed to squeeze themselves out..) either being told that their "architectural education" is not being recognized by the "board" or technically knock out by the structure of "the brand"...their tales in pursuing "architecture-education" seems like a journey through the middle-ages..(remember the "romanesque" gloomy and dull...) seems like no nody cares about as long as RM is considered..who cares about the non-conforming "LAM" syllibus...just wait until the 3rd strike and then you're out!!!
what is architecture if not about design?..well basically the idea of design as a core subject is a must in every aspect...architecture without studio-life...what a genius!...a non-travelling architecture student?...Philip Johnson (RIP) would chocked himself...

nothing can be exposed to them after a hefty sum of RM being dump just to get the "architecture"...to put them inside "the box"...maybe to "condemmed" them inside is more appropriate...which is the "contradiction" of keep telling them to "think outside the box"...

FLW once said "education is about enlightment"...
finally, the students also play part as the negligence party...don't let "the brand" keep manipulating the system....

Forrest Gump: Stupid is as stupid does...-1994

p/s: still waiting for the "renaissance man" to drop by...

The Ideator

lately, i miss to keep track on the www of one of my x-lecturer or the one that has the "X" factors through out his idea(s) and approach(s)...
the idea of "Memahami Model Penghasilan (Niat Laku Hasil)" is one of the model that is very useful to me...

http://www.hbp.usm.my/1b/ideator.htm

TAPAK = HASIL = NIAT = AKTOR = LAKU=ATURAN

the one an only wan* b

one=wan

Truth Against the World

"what is education without enlightment? It's mere conditioning. And what is mere conditioning but maintaining mass ignorance, the poisoning end of what we call 'civilization'. There is nothing more dreadful, more dangerous, nothing to be more feared in this world, than plain or fancy ignorance. We can see this today in the drift towards conformity. We can see it in the education of modern-mass society. You can blame education for much of this because education has not seen what we have needed as a free people. It has not provided enlightment. It has provided conditioning instead."

Frank Lloyd Wright gave this speech in 1957 to a group of students..

1957 = we declare our independence..

2007 = marks 50 years of the event

i got this problem...students never (0.0001% seldom) ask me after my lecture..when i ask "o.k,..any question?"

everybody either say yes or no...i know, as a first year students this thing happened ..as what i had experienced it during my early years in education..

BUT

that is about 17 years back in 1990..when the petronas twin tower was merely a mode of ideas..17 years and now the same problem occurs to my first year students*..

DEJA VU ?...

someone** up there should do something..as nothing seems to be done to "correct" the "syntax error"...

* terms and conditions applied

**eventhough i mostly aggreed that "you're the navigator of your own destiny"

articles to read...

i got to know dr. tajuddin rasdi only a few years back...somehow there is something about him that i wished would have known or met him or the kind of lecturers* back from my archi-education period...

well as "tak kenal maka tak cinta" ...so try and have a peek into what he got to say..

http://www.atma.ukm.my/senibina/index.html

*i pay my tribute to my ex- lecturers:

• en haidar
• en mi
• pak ku
• en wan b

terima kasih..may allah bless you all..

is this architecture II

yesterday, 3rd of April...around 4:45pm...

the "hard rock" cafe of tago were blewn apart..

luckily the were no casualty...

imagine what if...

architecture is for all...there should be no discrimination to who..where or what you are...

ever heard architecture for the poor?

ever heard Hassan Fathy?

is our "hard rock cafe" a part of the "discrimination"

or is it just a part of the lack of "sense & sensibility"

or can it be because of we are being treat by those who suppose to be "human"

we're all human...(aren't we?)

only god's knows.....

* i once heard this..."sometime those individual in the human resource dept. must learn and act to be more human.."