Tuesday 12 July 2011

Greek/Classical/Egyptian culture in Malaysia





Find 5 examples of Greek/Classical/Egyptian culture in Malaysia
2. Photograph/find images and put up on ur blog
3. Write 1 paragraph on ur blog

Why do you think ppl added this element
what is the purpose of it
what is the meaning here in this (Malaysian) culture? 






Methodist Primary School
In front the school’s pillars are use Greek Structure- Doric Column to build, because it can have some foreign felling and it looks solid and unity. The purpose is let the school has feeling of Greece. The meaning here is peaceful and progressive.













Museum Telekom Malaysia
The Museum’s pillars are use Greek Structure- Ionic Column to build, because it make the building looks more stable and solid. The purpose is let the museum has feeling of Greece. The meaning here is peaceful and progressive.

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Acheen Street Mosque
Oasis Damansara Pyramids
Rome Style Shoes
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Puh Toh Tze Temple
This is Puh Toh Tze Temple at Sabah. This temple's pillars are use Greek structure to build. The purpose of using this kind of pillars is give a sense of openness and let the air circulate. This is important to chinese temple, because there are a lot of smoke the pillars is to let air circulate. The meaning is wide feeling and stable.


Sunway Pyramid
This is Sunway Pyramid's outside look. This is based on the Egypt Structure and it is also the most popular building influence by Egypt culture. The building can give a very strong feeling like live in Egypt. They use this element because it looks stable and solid. The purpose is to prevent the bad thing. The meaning is problem solving and people will feel can bring good luck to them.


 
Segi College Kota Damansa
 The college used a lot of the Greek structure to build. In the college we can see a lot of the pillars. This pillar in the image is call Ionic. The pillars are very huge and double. The purpose is can let people feel the building is huge and comfortable. The meaning here is peaceful, progressive and openness.

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In my opinion, after done this all the survey i found out that Malaysia like to follow the Greek structure and apply in the building. The main reason is the pillars/ columns can give people a sense of openness and air circulate.



5 questions.

5 Questions

1. Why am I doing this course?
Because I want become a famous Graphic Designer in the world. Through this course, I want open up my creative and put it in this course. And also, I think I am a creative person who likes to do and edit everything around me. I can make the useless things become useful. Although I don’t like drawing, I like to use the computer software to create something there is never appear before. I also like to do the manual work like Ai Wei Wei, he did a lot of artwork I like it very much.

2. What do I want from this course?
In this course, I want to know more information about Design, how to create a best artwork, how the attract people to view my artwork and how important Graphic design in the future.

3. What do I want to be doing in 5, 10, 20 years?
In these 5 years, I hope that I can learn much knowledge as much as I can. And then I can graduate and find a suitable job. If I can, I have enough money, I want have my own company. I want be a famous designer in the world and whole world can recognize me and my artworks.

4. What do I want to get from this class?
In this class, I want to know more information about those “wonder” buildings and artworks, how the historical personage did and how they found out it is a design element and principle. I also interesting in the story about the buildings, artwork and artist. How they get the inspiration to do the buildings and artworks.

5. Is History of Art & Design necessary for your large goals?
No. I don’t think that History of Art and Design is necessary for my large goals. Because what I want to achieve is a future things, I want look forward to achieve my goals rather than understand those historical things. Although this course can help me at somewhere, I don’t think it is important to me.