Baitul Rahmah: a Final Evolution of The Malay Classical Style Amidst Change
| Main Authors: | Abdul Majid, Noorhanita, Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen, Raja Abdul Kadir, Tengku Anis Qarihah Binti, Sapian, Abdul Razak Bin, Samsudin, Abu Dzar Bin |
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| Format: | Article info application/pdf Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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Universitas Indraprasta PGRI
, 2020
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| Online Access: |
https://journal.unindra.ac.id/index.php/cusy/article/view/347 https://journal.unindra.ac.id/index.php/cusy/article/view/347/pdf |
Daftar Isi:
- The paper highlights the significance and position of the Baitul Rahmah, an early 20th-century mansion in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia, as a key milestone of stylistic evolvement of local vernacular architecture. Its form embodies, a typological variation at a time of growing Colonial imperialism, while its grammar and language refers to early modern stylistic expression reflecting the fundamental principles of indigenous architecture. The Baitul Rahmah brings to light how a final evolution and epitome of the vernacular projects an identity as a cosmopolitan manifestation. Its internal ornamentation recalls the stylized forms of local motifs and reflect a form of control and minimalism; i.e. an ‘ornamental decorum’. Its wood-carved expressions seem stylised into increasing ‘modernised’ simplication and modularity, while its masonry- timber structure reflect the identity of hybridity in architecture which symbolise the tensions of local communities as they step into the 1900s into a global context.