Baitul Rahmah: a final evolution of the Malay classical style amidst change

Abdul Majid, Noor Hanita and Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen and Raja Abdul Kadir, Tengku Anis Qarihah and Sapian, Abdul Razak and Samsuddin, Abu Dzar (2020) Baitul Rahmah: a final evolution of the Malay classical style amidst change. Cultural Syndrome, 2 (1). pp. 78-99. E-ISSN 2685-3825

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Abstract

The paper highlights the significance and position of the Baitul Rahmah, an early 20th-century mansion in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia, as a key milestone of stylistic evolvement of local vernacular architecture. Its form embodies, a typological variation at a time of growing Colonial imperialism, while its grammar and language refers to early modern stylistic expression reflecting the fundamental principles of indigenous architecture. The Baitul Rahmah brings to light how a final evolution and epitome of the vernacular projects an identity as a cosmopolitan manifestation. Its internal ornamentation recalls the stylized forms of local motifs and reflect a form of control and minimalism; i.e. an ‘ornamental decorum’. Its wood-carved expressions seem stylised into increasing ‘modernised’ simplication and modularity, while its masonry- timber structure reflect the identity of hybridity in architecture which symbolise the tensions of local communities as they step into the 1900s into a global context.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	2521/83238
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Malay aesthetic style, the Malay classical, the rules of Malay classical, the Malay modern vernacular
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture N Fine Arts > NA Architecture > NA190 History > Ancient architecture N Fine Arts > NA Architecture > NA190 History > Modern architeture N Fine Arts > NK Decorative arts Applied arts Decoration and ornament
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design > Department of Applied Arts and Design
Depositing User:	Dr puteri shireen jahnkassim
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2020 16:55
Last Modified:	23 Nov 2020 10:11
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/83238

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