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.

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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 Maestro Housein the 20th Century, which states that the shape of a building or object should be predicated by or based upon its intended function or purpose Read more

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waterfront-design-a-three-cities-comparison

Once a back area, water ways are no longer looked at being something to be hidden for. This is a good way to promote hygiene and also to observe flood before it comes. During the last decades, waterfront redesign has been in trend to change the face of a city. The pictures were taken from 3 different cities (left-right above-right down; Yogya, Shanghai, Paris), although the quality of the designs are not comparable, the attention and message are clear, waterfront is exactly ‘a front’ piece. Read more

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the-planless-house

This design was supposed to compete in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in Japan, 2006; but due to unforseen circumstances, the final design didn’t make it out of the drawing board at all until now. So here it is, in all its glory, an architectural concept which my colleague, Endy Y. Prasetyo from Studio Rurale Surabaya, and I put together two years Read more

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how-to-photograph-architecture

Architecture has been a popular choice for photographers of all kinds to photograph. There are fine details that need to be looked at in order to make the building or landscape look just right. Take your time, be patient and most importantly know what you want the photograph to Read more

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