So. Here we are again. It just occurred to me that it has been 15 days since I last posted about something, when I actually wanted to write more posts about some more things. But anyway… here we are again. In September 2019, I went to an event called “Berlin Graphic Days” in Kreuzberg and […]
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If only Orville and Wilbur Wright knew how much they’d impacted the world through the invention of airplane.. Surya and I were friends in junior high school. We both went to a public school located near the northern end of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, just under the tip of Mt. Merapi. We used to take the same […]
Arsitektur berasal dari terminologi Yunani architektoon, yang dihimpun dari arche yang berarti: asli, utama, awal; dan tektoon yang merujuk pada sesuatu yang berdiri kokoh dan stabil. Terlepas dari pemaknaan lain yang berkembang setelahnya, terminologi ‘arsitektur’ cenderung merujuk pada sudut pandang teknis terhadap sebuah bangunan. Di India, istilah Vasthu dipilih sebagai cara memaknai ‘arsitektur’, sebagaimana yang […]
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Berlin on a Tuesday
March 27, 2018. After 16 hours of sitting on an almost empty bus, mostly filled with Russian-speaking passengers (effectively nullifying me from any sort of linguistic comprehension during the entire ride), I finally stepped out at Berlin’s central bus station. “It is a vacation,” I assured myself. “It is my vacation.”
Barangkali diantara kita ada yang mengetahui atau pernah memiliki sebuah kotak berisi pengingat dari peristiwa-peristiwa yang terjadi di dalam hidup: foto masa kecil, jam tangan pemberian Paman, atau tiket pesawat kita yang pertama. Kotak tersebut masih terus kita isi, dan terkadang kita buka kembali saat dirasa perlu mengingat apa yang membawa kita sampai di sini. […]
Beberapa saat yang lalu, saya menonton lagi paparan Tom Fisher (University of Minnesota) tentang Desain dan Etika Berarsitektur yang disampaikan dalam acara Solutions for the Other 90%, yang dulu juga pernah disampaikan di salah satu kelas Etika Profesi. Fisher mengungkapkan bahwa sebagai arsitek dan desainer, keberpihakan kita dalam merancang secara nyata memberikan efek yang permanen […]
One can argue that Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is the Elon Musk of architecture: a modern-day risk-taker, challenging the boundaries of design with his firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) growing BIGger (heh) every year. Although his works are increasingly well-scattered around the planet, Copenhagen (the firm’s initial base camp) still places first as the city […]
Almost two years ago, my two good friends and I submitted an entry for an international design competition on Urban Housing, which thankfully got us a second place. Here’s to finally sharing our competition panels, accompanied by the original presentation transcript that we prepared for the judging panel since we were super nervous at that […]
If you are an architecture student/enthusiast and you somehow can make it to Paris for any reason, I strongly advise you to not forget that the most famous building in the world (of architecture students), and the father of all those pilotis you keep making in your designs (duh) is only an hour away in […]
Housing continues to become a constant challenge in growing cities. For example, in the growing economies of Asia, Latin America and Africa, cities must be prepared to house its massive influx of people in the quickest and most efficient way. However, we’ve seen enough of social housing failures where the blocks that the residents are […]