COLONIAL ARCHITERCTURAL HERITAGE OF MALAYSIA | Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi

Judul : Colonial Architerctural Heritage Of Malaysia
Pengarang : Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi
Penerbit : Dewan Bahasa Dan Pustaka
Genre : Seni Bina
Mukasurat : 80 Halaman
Cetakan Pertama : 2015
ISBN : 9789834615277

The presence of the English Colonialist brought many important changes in Malaysia and the most glaring and obvious of all are the language of buildings and planning of towns. The English had brought their great ideas of humanistic living through their cultivation of the towns with the public squares, streets and nooks and crannies that create a more humane modern living condition. In the case of buildings, the Colonialists had merged the tropical language of traditional Malay architecture of roofs, verandah dan louvers into beautiful arcaded walkways, balconies, clerestory windows, roof forms all framed within a Palladian, Victorian or Gothic expressions. The richness of the Colonial buildings can serve as an important direction to the idea of a national identity that is vernacular, tropical, rational, modern and humanistic in scale. The many building types of administration, recreation, education, commercial and religious in nature have served to bring a landscape of beauty in modern Malaysia.