While everyone of us are struggling
to find the real identity of Malaysia architecture, I myself have a
different point of view. Since Malaysia are made up of different people
from different culture, ethnics, races, religions etc, why don't we
appreciate all these and made full use of this? What's wrong with
combining all these elements into our design and say that this is
'Malaysia'? We are proud of our nasi lemak with rojak, so why when we
come to architecture or design, we tend to reject all these and say that
we are just copying or cut and paste from here and there? That's our
character! This made our country the main attraction.
If one argues that the mosques'
characters are copied from the Islamic country, Chinese temples'
identity is from the China, Indian temple from the India, so we
ourselves do not have our own image, but try to think further and
deeper, if we really want to find out the root of Malaysia, the original
culture of Malaysia, we have to go back to the orang asli period. I
believe that architecture is for the people, and it is for the society
NOW, let's focus on what we have now and design for the people, examine
what they actually need but not debating on what is our own ad original
image. What made up our country now is the people from different
background, use this as our weapon and emphasis on it, tell the world
proudly that we are from a 'rojak' country and we
have no problem with it. If we ourselves do not appreciate this, how
can we convince others to accept our culture or even our architecture
and design?
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