Can climates response become an essential lingua franca for Malay architecture?

• Main Author: Ahmad, Mohd. Hamdan
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: NA Architecture
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2321/1/LinguaArch.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/2321/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The common debate on Malay architecture is always about projecting local identity on built form. The architecture solution for achieving Malay identity in contemporary era commonly uses significant of cultural elements and Malay artifacts to produce building as symbolic Malay identity. This produced...