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The Double Life of Utopia

archimalaya posted an article on - Aug 1, 2011, 11:32 pm
It is a party of fossil fuel consumption. The victims of this cosmopolitan life seeking emotional shelter, driving in his/her mystified symbol of freedom and esteem leaving the daily jail of modern enslavement. It is the Utopian vision of the occidental industrialist, mistakenly borrowed by the...
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[LIVING]

archimalaya posted an article on - Jun 20, 2011, 3:09 am
Malaysian Institute of Architects Design 2011 2nd Prize Malaysian Institute of Architects Design 2011 Honourable Mention ADJapan 2011 Gold Award
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Linking Lunacy

archimalaya posted an article on - Jan 6, 2011, 6:15 am
He is, above all, the pride of a matematicalised world. An unity of uniformity that defies speculation, and severe discipline that suggest differentiation. The vernacular house has given way to his new system of value...the value of 2-dimensional totalitarian. They are the replicants of the One...t...
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Blade Runner and Our Brave New World

archimalaya posted an article on - Jan 4, 2011, 12:49 pm
Blade Runner. Consumerist prison of Los Angeles in the year 2019. City dwellers are occupied with constant psychological detergent of commercial promise and surveillance. Human and non-human replicant are programmed as the spending machines who sustain the dominance of giant corporations, the Master...
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Dalínian Legitimacy of Modernization

archimalaya posted an article on - Dec 31, 2010, 2:23 am
Replies to comments on The End Of Architecture History And The Representation of the Void. Salvador Dali (1904-1989): The Persistence of Memory. A surrealist reexamination of the Eurocentric cosmic order and concept of time. On western history The legitimacy of western model of history on our socie...
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New Junk Space or Revolution

archimalaya posted an article on - Dec 16, 2010, 7:54 am
Project 02 - 12/2010
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The Information Dumping Site and Zero Waste

archimalaya posted an article on - Dec 16, 2010, 6:38 am
Modern libraries, before the proliferation of mass digital media represent the guardian of information, both old and new, both fictional and scientific. It represent a prison guarded by the academic librarians, public interest in its role are limited to the periodical seek of hungry intellectual and...
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The Incomplete Human and His Indubitable Knowledge

archimalaya posted an article on - Oct 7, 2010, 12:33 pm
Jacopo Barbari, Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli. The gesture of Pacioli (pioneer of medievel optics) tells everything include how union of mind and eyes evolved from the medievel perspective. Reply to comments and questions on From Ocularcentrism To Hyperreality. The ‘Wright’ Way Or The Dome Our â...
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From Ocularcentrism To Hyperreality

archimalaya posted an article on - Sep 21, 2010, 6:16 am
Reply to Wani's comment and questions on 'Our Narcissistic Eyes and The Architecture of Visual Images' French rationalist Rene Descartes's theory of vision as the model of knowledge marked the start of ocularcentrism in architecture. His scepticism in the legitimacy of all our acquired knowledge fur...
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Of the Conscious Ethics & The Unconscious Evolution of Architecture

archimalaya posted an article on - Sep 8, 2010, 8:39 am
Reply to Yang Yang. http://www.yangsquare.com/ We are still struggling with the understanding of the 'structure' of architecture. The conscious ethical desire of architecture and the underlying human evolutionary formation of architecture are two distinct topics. One could never juggle across the bo...
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The Battle for Territory

archimalaya posted an article on - Jun 20, 2010, 10:51 am
Reyner Banham - The Anatomy of a Dwelling: 'With very little exaggeration, the baroque ensemble of domestic gadgetry epitomises the intestinal complexity of gracious living. In other words, this is the junk that keep the pad swinging. The house itself has been omitted from the drawing. But if mechan...
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Lost World of Peach Blossom Spring : The Form of Calligrapher's Escapism

archimalaya posted an article on - May 22, 2010, 3:03 am
Architecture Design Studio - Resort for the escapist calligrapher - yr2
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The End Of Architecture History And The Representation of the Void

archimalaya posted an article on - May 13, 2010, 9:31 am
Mist and Myth; Progress and the Continuity of Story; Metanarrative and the reality of skill, architecture lies in between. 21th century human live in a surfaceless void, hollow and boundless. The end of modern era signify the collapse of the Centre, the Central Image, the great style and the Idea of...
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The End Of Architecture History And The Last Tyrant I

archimalaya posted an article on - Mar 4, 2010, 9:46 am
-John Dennison-'The View of Le Corbusier'. The Final Form of architecture is one that use advance technology to achieve abstract representation, different from the utalitarian struggle of the vernacular. It has been a shifting journey of architecture discovery since the first time I found architectu...
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Our Narcissistic Eyes and The Architecture Of Visual Images

archimalaya posted an article on - Jan 23, 2010, 3:43 pm
-Caravaggio, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1601. 'Regardless of our prioritisation of the eye, visual observation is often confirmed by our touch...'-Juhani Pallasmaa. A sprouting and deadly habit of ocularcetrism is approaching, posing greater and greater threat to the survival of architecture. ...
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Charles Darwin and The Natural Selection of Architecture

archimalaya posted an article on - Jan 6, 2010, 9:34 am
-Limited edition 2 pounds coins commemorate 200th Anniversary of his birth. 200 years since the first human found the great truth of his origin. In the midst of 19th century England, a young man, both an attentive observer and a naturalist put forth some of the most critically fearsome questions tha...
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Deconstruction: The 'Differance' of the 'Difference'

archimalaya posted an article on - Jan 6, 2010, 8:48 am
In relation to the Opposition between Good and Evil; Mind and Body; Reality and Appearance; Self and Other; Identity and Difference; Interior and Exterior; Reality and Fantasy; Order and Chaos; Presence and Absence; Black and White... "DIFFERANCE IS NEITHER PRESENT NOR ABSENT. INSTEAD, IT IS A KIND ...
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Of Nietzsche And The Nihilistic Global Culture

archimalaya posted an article on - Nov 26, 2009, 4:04 am
-Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche. Oil on canvas. Nietzsche standing on a bridge looking over the swirling world. His expression of deep thinking counterpart with the deep blue mountain. 3 weeks of excessive work has worn me out. Turning the pages of some Nietzsche's writings sparked back some quick...
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Of Fascism Behind A Democratic Mask

archimalaya posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 2:58 am
-A Venetian mask protect and permit wearer to freely interact with people of all social status in a traditional Carnevale. Malaysia has it worn 52years, still counting. There are too many ambiguous and lopsided systems exist in this country. Not hard to be identified. Both blaming its cultural and d...
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3 Musketeers' Pilgrim and The Beginning of An End Of A City-State

archimalaya posted an article on - Nov 13, 2009, 1:00 pm
-An implicit clock gears metaphor of the rigidity and robotic nature of Singapore.-APEC as the clock gears repairman Not a Hajj Pilgrimage though, nor this place inherit masterful pieces of architecture, that worth 3 Malaysian musketeers to set on a highly intrepid trip. Singapore has always been o...
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Post-Functionalist, Beauty and The Struggle of Representation

archimalaya posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 11:18 am
-An oil refinery silo that demonstrate sheer functionalist beauty of assisting nature's tasks. Modern era represent beauty of functionalist thinking but functionalist thinking couldn't be singly represented by modernism. Functionalist perspective of absolute beauty has deeper root and longer history...
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Of Impulse Conversion and a Masterpiece of Spatial Concept

archimalaya posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 1:37 am
-The museum of hearing...? Parallel to what biomorphic architecture has to do with the borrowed idea from human organic inner structures, some component in our body (other than the physics of the skeletal structure), are able to show enormous functional proximity and physical metaphor with how we sh...
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Of termitidae's Harmony and homo sapiens's Unending Dialectic

archimalaya posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 10:41 am
The last century of earth will see human species in sorry state of inculpativation. The intolerable nature of human is critically contradicting the rest of nature, making them the strangest animalia kingdom ever existed on this planet. The paradox of humans nature, which is much represented by some ...
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