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[21 Aug 2008 | 9 Comments | 293 views]
City’s Future = Slums?
citys-future-slums

Word by word suffocated my lungs and so they hung there, limped and numbed. The scattered houses down bellow are a jungle of undeniable truths of how living squatters in Indonesia’s biggest city, Jakarta is conditioned. I am sure if you open the car window you would smell the bad odor rousing from down there. Haphazard developments of housing on unattended or under disputes of ownership lands are what had happened to form these squatters.

Moral Responsibility, architecture, research studies, theory of architecture »

[16 Jul 2008 | 12 Comments | 509 views]
Form follows function or function follows form?
form-follows-function-or-function-follows-form

Which one comes first, “form follows function”, or “function follows form”? This is just like how we can compare between egg and chicken, which one comes first, egg, or chicken?
Form follows function is a principle associated with modern architecture and industrial design

research studies, urban design »

[28 Jan 2008 | One Comment | 74 views]
the-existence-of-semarang-diponegoro-park-today

Diponegoro Park (Taman Diponegoro), located in Semarang city area, have significant change from its function for the park and one of node area there. The difference happen from the past and today with its main function, as was activity here used to be an active park. Later on, this place had just become a passive park. At the early 1900’s

architect journey, architecture, research studies, urban design »

[15 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 55 views]
excursion-to-thames-town-shanghai-2007

 

 
Edited from Ariyanti (2008): “Themed Town, Thames Town” an unpublished article for Campus of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, Shanghai
It was a cloudy Saturday and our group of formerly 14 people has been reduced to 8 from the morning visit to Anting New Town. Exhausted, we found out that Thames Town is really far out from to the other direction, the only way to get there was with a cab, since our limited Chinese, we asked our friend to instruct the taxi driver how to get there. After …

public space, research studies »

[29 Dec 2007 | No Comment | 43 views]
creation-of-public-space-in-europe-19th-century-part-5

Conclusion
As the examples each explain the differences and resemblances of the different types of festivities, I would like to point out here the lessons we can learn from the production of public space by these activities.