Friday 19 August 2011

Culture in Egypt/ Greek in Malaysia Part 6

I am replacing the National Monument with Pudu Prison building, I think it is a good example for this.

This time, I saw some of the Greek Element in this Historical Building in Malaysia. It is obvious when Malaysia is a multicultural society, so the element applied on the building also changed along the time.

As we can see from the picture,

It is Pudu Jail in Kuala Lumpur.Although we knew that the Pudu Jail was built by the British colonial government,  the building of the Pudu building still  consist of several culture element. 

We can see that the two tower is similar with the Islamic religious tower in Malaysia.

On the upper middle part of the  the building consist consist like a wall like   structure that look alike a castle from the British.

In the middle bottom side of the building, there consist of 6 column that I believe it is a Greek element.


Besides that, in term of the kitsch matter in Malaysia, I observed that some of our building were applied the Doric or even the pilaster in their building. Some of the house developer in Malaysia uses the Doric for the commercial usage rather than use the Doric in an artistic way. 
The doric was used as a supporting foundation and were used in huge quantity for commercial purpose















The usage of the pillar have degraded which it used for decoration and commercial purpose only. This is a degradation on the usage of the pillar rather than symbolize something in a society.

Another example regarding the kitsch issues in Malaysia is the villager tends to build their house over a number of pillar.What draw me into the interest is the house actually in a temporary placed which the pillar seem used as a supporting foundation of the building.  The questions come to my mind when u see the figure below:




The building is built in this manner due to prevent boar animal from attacking or even entering their houses.This form a protective shelter to the village. Indeed, the availability of the house to move mobility makes an advantage to the owner to move their house from one area to another area. This method is useful for a low-land house which will flood during the raining season in Malaysia.
An event, moving the house by number of villagers
At last, the pillar as a foundation was left out after the moving activity of the houses.

 However, if we flash back to the past, the heritage building that exist in Malaysia today actually contains lot of doric and pilaster which is built during the colonization of Portugal, Holland and the British.


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