The aesthetic tendencies of early modernity in South-East Asia: the hybrid language of aristocratic palaces of the early 1900s in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen, Mohd Nawawi, Norwina, Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita, Raja Abdul Kadir, Tengku Anis Qarihah, Abdullah, Alias
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: UMK Press 2018
• Subjects: NA Architecture; NA1 General; NA190 History
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/67400/1/67400_The%20aesthetic%20tendencies%20of%20early%20modernity.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/67400/; https://isonh2018.wordpress.com/contact/
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

South-East Asian ‘Nusantara’ architecture , in the post-colonial era, is characterized by a historical cleavage between a ‘modern’ present and a ‘traditional’ past. The paper attempts to bridge this rupture through mapping early modernist stylistic tendencies in Malay palaces and characterizing thei...