Sunday 26 September 2010

Architectural Publication - Footprints



Footprints
Architectural Design Documentation 2009-2010
Design Works from the Students of the 
Master Program in Architectural Design
Institut Teknologi Bandung
245 pages, extensive color and b/w illustrations
160 x 240mm, Paperback, 2010
ISBN 978-602-97836-2-9
Release date 16 October 2010

Tuesday 21 September 2010

Graphic for CAEM Visit (Revisited from 2007)



Project Title: Information Graphic for Council of Architectural Education Malaysia Visit 2007
Client: Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA

Monday 20 September 2010

Urban Transformation and Culture



The current conception of the city has been dominated by the deterministic approach of city planning and its growth, which include rationalist, planned and functionally driven approaches. These ideas of scientific planning have ignored other elements that are similarly important; pleasure, delight and happiness, fun, memory and its mnemonic meanings. It is through this research framework, qualitative and experiential natures of the city and its cultural practices are to be addressed in seeking approaches in making a city pleasurable. Subjective notions of habitation and occupying the city can be best addressed through speculative research in order to understand the city from a more holistic, user-oriented perspective. 


Thursday 2 September 2010

Ravage of the Planet 2011, Shah Alam, Malaysia





The success of the two previous International Conferences on Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards (Ravage of the Planet), held in Bariloche, Argentina (2006) and in Gordons Bay, South Africa (2009), has led the organisers to reconvene the meeting in Malaysia.
The conference has always been well attended by a substantial group of scientists from all over the world, which underlines the concern of the international community regarding the state of the planet. The basic premise of the meeting is the need to determine urgent solutions before we reach a point of irreversibility.
Our current civilisation has fallen into a self-destructive process by which natural resources are consumed at an increasing rate. This process has now spread across the planet in search of further sources of energy and materials. The aggressiveness of this quest is such that the future of our planet is in the balance. The process is compounded by the pernicious effects of the resulting pollution.
The conference will discuss the objective of reaching sustainability in the framework of all different disciplines in order to arrive at optimal solutions. Hence this meeting is essentially transdisciplinary in order to find appropriate sustainable solutions, i.e. those involving collaboration across a wide range of disciplines. Like the first two, the aim of this conference is to take stock of our situation and try to facilitate constructive principles and policies for a way forward.


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