Baitul Rahmah: a final evolution of the Malay classical style amidst change
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,...
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| Language: | English |
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Universitas Indraprasta PGRI
2020
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/83238/1/83238_Baitul%20Rahmah.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/83238/ https://journal.unindra.ac.id/index.php/cusy/article/view/347 https://doi.org/10.30998/cs.v2i1.347 |
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| Institution: | Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | 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. |
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