May
15
Who (Really) Needs an Architect?
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I wrote this article casually as the idea popped into my head during a very casual talk with a former college mate of mine.
No, this article does not mean that I am unemployed and in desperate need of a job. The title simply tries to convey the question of: “who in society really needs an architect’s services?” Some of you might answer “high-paying clients, of course!”, others might be less picky and accept any job opportunity that comes along. Read more
Jan
13

Professor Kenzo Tange was a Japanese maestro architect, famous by his impressive modern-structural masterpieces (later known by name “High-Tech” modern style). High Tech is architecture design style that exposed the building construction’s structures as a part of the design aesthetic. Tange’s works including the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (1st place in design competition), Summer Olympics stadium complex in Tokyo, which the design is like a stringray fish form (Pritzker Prize citation as “among the most beautiful buildings of the 20th century”), Tokyo Cathedral of Saint Mary, and Tokyo Master Plan, which concept to re designed the Tokyo city, OUB Center, OUB Plaza in Singapore, also master plan to re-designed the Plaza Place d’Italie, in Read more
Dec
29
YB Mangunwijaya , Wastu Citra and Kali Code
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Yusuf Biliarta Mangunwijaya, known as Romo Mangun, born in Ambarawa, 6th of May 1929, is one of Indonesian maestro architect, an author, also a religious Catholic leader. He got his educational background from Seminari Menengah Kotabaru, Yogyakarta (1951), Seminari Menengah Santo Petrus Kanisius, Mertoyudan, Magelang (1952), Filsafat Teologi Sancti Pauli, Kotabaru, Yogyakarta (1953-1959), Teknik Arsitektur, ITB, Read more
Dec
29
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Alvar Aalto’s wide field of activity ranged from furniture and glassware designs to architecture and painting. His vase designs are world-famous. He invented a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture in 1932. Aalto furniture is manufactured by Artek, a company Aalto co-founded with his wife Aino Aalto, Maire Gullichsen Read more