The challenge of designing culturally

• Main Author: Jahn Kassim, Puteri Shireen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BCI Asia 2018
• Subjects: HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology; NA100 Architecture and the state; NA4100 Special classes of buildings; NA9080 Urban planners
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/77177/2/Challenging%20of%20designing%20cultural%20FULLTEXT.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/77177/; http://www.constructionplusasia.com/

In his seminal book “Leaves of the Same Tree: Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka”, Professor Leonard Andaya paints a picture that reaches out in time, beyond the confines of the present geographical boundaries of nations. The memory of lands bordering the Straits of Melaka—known as lands...