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Blog 2_Body & Building - The Modularity of Malay Architecture (Yaseer Allybuccus)

The study of the mathematical relationship between nature and human dimensions has been explored since the 1400s starting with Leonardo Da Vinci in about 1490 (Oksanish, 2019). He drew the Vitruvian Man, which were proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius, a Roman architect (Oksanish, 2019). The human proportion drawing (Figure 1) shows a man in two superimposed positions with his legs and arms apart surrounded by a square and a circle. The drawing is based on measurements of male models in Milan, a representation of the ideal male figure according to Da Vinci (Oksanish, 2019), however, this proportion system only represented a tiny percentage of the human population (Arellano, 2018). Le Corbusier expressed his support for Da Vinci’s ideas of the ideal human proportions, however, in his obsession with creating harmony between the human body and spaces, he sought to establish a new system that would bind the body to the architectural world, in which arose t

Blog 4 : Context and Building 2 - Planning of a proper lifestyle ( Dinnesh Shaun )

When confronted with the question of what make a city great, one would describe its many landmarks, iconic plazas or even monumental and antiques structures but not many raises the important question, how good is city in terms of its operation or in other words the city's environment and its feasible living conduciveness. One would even glorify their city and its abundance of amenities or parks but are they likely to have visited all of them or even utilized it at all in their daily lives? When the mysteries of how a city is planned is questioned by Jane Jacobs, an American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics, she unravels it in her own understanding through her work known as the "The Death and Life of Great American Cities". In these excerpts she expresses her dismay towards city planning without any form of understanding and the petty trials and experiments that ha ppens in city planni

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