Monday 11 July 2011

Greek Archtecture

1.     What is Kitsch?
2.     Are these Columns in Malaysia Kitsch?


From the dictionary, kitsch refer to  a works of art or object that are popular but that are considered to have no real artistic value and to be lacking in good taste.
There are a lot of thing that considered as kitsch item in our countries. For example, in todays lecture, one of our lecture shows us some of the picture of the Greek architecture from the past and show how increadible a civilation can be in term of engineering.

Indeed, there are several type of the Greek architecture that are used frequently in the past. For example, one of significant change in term of usage of the pillar (also known as Doric ) in Malaysia is majority of the Design of the Pillar is used as a "Kitsch" where the Doric used as a decoration and have no sense of artistic applied to it.

Well, Let us compare the  differences of the architectural.
This is one of our College in Malaysia which apply the concept of the Greek Architecture.



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