Int..... o be continued.

Introduction. As seen it's a long word, that has not finished. Just like my FIRST DRAFT. It's just starting to show a path but it's yet to be a paved one, so yeah. It's work in progress, my construction men are at work (:

Do read it though if you like teasers ;)




Introduction Draft One

By looking back into the history of architecture, many periods/eras have failed because of the simple fact of many laymen not being able to understand the ideas and concepts of architects. In fact, it is because there are many periods that came after the Greek period that shows as proof to the statement that many lack the skill and ability to analyze and criticize designs in architecture.

Not everyone is born with the ability to differentiate the good from the bad of designs in architecture, especially with arts and design being subjective. Thus, what makes one building a success and another a failure? Where and how can we pin point the reason for a building to be considered a good or bad design?

Additionally, we have to consider the thoughts of the users, the laymen, people who would actually be using the designed building. Do they even care about how and why certain things were designed a certain way? Or are they just indifferent towards designs in architecture and are just complacent?

How about the designers, the professionals in the industry, do they strive to be better designers that can contribute to a better living or do the just strive to be better than the person next to them. Is the competition amongst the professionals’ one that will be improving our future living or one that would cause the death of architecture? Adding on, we know that Malaysian designers are very talented indeed, but what do they do to show it? Or are they even given a chance to show their worth? The blame game should not be put only on either sides as even the government plays a part, everyone does. With talented local professional designers, why is it that our country still feels the need for requesting help from foreign architects to design our own iconic buildings? The local architects were not even given a chance.

Which leads back to, have the local designers even proven their worth to be able to design iconic buildings to put Malaysia on the grid line of the earth? And have the locals been supportive enough to help with the upbringing of the awareness towards Malaysian designs in architecture? As it is the locals who are the ones who will acknowledge the designs, it is how they respond that makes the difference, so are they responding well or just being robotically indifferent? Maybe they’re indifferent as they do not know how one actually judges a good design in architecture.

Logically speaking, not everyone is a saint as people actually do judge a book by its cover despite it being subconsciously or not, people just do it. That said, most buildings too are judged merely by its final outcome. This means, a person that lacks the ability and skill to weigh the good and bad of the design architecturally, will definitely just judge the building merely by its aesthetic outlook. The whole design process that architects go through, such as generating ideas and thoroughly considering many other important factors will have gone to waste. 

This will gradually lead to the death of architecture as architects will no longer strive for functional ideals but rather produce soulless buildings that scream with high aesthetics. In fact, just because many have failed to see the intentions and ideas of architects has led to the failure of many great periods in the history of architecture. Thus leading to the need for more people to be able to think critically and analyze a building properly before condemning it as a bad design.