Bayanaka Canggu (Bahasa Indonesia)

Article about a villa in Canggu-Bali designed by Gregorius Supie Yolodi.

Not published.

“Sekalipun rumah peristirahatan ini berada di Bali, tanggapan atas pengaruh arsitektur tradisional Bali tidak semu diterjemahkan dengan membawa elemen fisik ornamental ke bangunan. Menurut arsitek, salah satu esensi yang dianggap paling menarik bagi dirinya adalah ide ‘jalur dan simpul' yang menyatu dengan proporsinya dalam arsitektur tradisional Bali”
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2007

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Architecture Review

Communities and Nature Bond – Boundary Creation in Urban Bali (English language)

Paper presented in the Artepolis Seminar & Workshop, ITB – Institut Teknologi Bandung, 21-22 July 2006

“ I aim to provide Urban Bali case study with real communities actions that is associated to the promising strategic role model to create better living place. Instead of showing communities as merely government-create society, I aim to reflect on the existing Urban Bali communities as an institution that represents specific strength and have over time shaped a better living place for people..”
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2006

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Community &

Private Initiatives

Coba House (English language)

Architecture critic on Coba House designed by Daniel Sandjaja based on real time experience living in the house for 2,5 years.

Not published

“…However, with the fact that there are more publication and television programs about design-architecture in Indonesia , it would be a fascinating challenge for the future clients and designer to carefully investigate which is the best thing to choose. It seems that modern architectural forms in the tropical climate need to go further than merely chic images.”
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2005

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Architecture Review

Bintaro Church (English language)

Article about Bintaro Church competition; published in Architecture Asia Magazine

“Architects have long complained that public buildings design are too often suffocated by endless public meetings, community consultation process, design-review boards, or even sometimes an undisclosed process of appointing certain architect to do the design work.
But these days architects should feel relieve since more and more public buildings design are chosen from a competition process…”
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2004

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Competition Review

In Struggle of new life (English language)

Article about a fisherman village – north of Bali .

Not published

“ There is a wistful myth that if only we had enough money to spend, we could do anything we want (as a so called sea-environmental lover), wipe out all destructive fishermen, reverse decay coral reef in to a great beautiful living ecosystem, and perhaps solve all the environment problems throughout the world. But no money can really buy it all; it's the thought and the people who carry out it all that count.”
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2004

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Rural

Jakarta 's City Park –
Lapangan Merdeka ( independence Park ) in a different perspective (English language)

Public facilities – urban critic and analysis concerning that lapangan Merdeka is turning to failed public space.

Not published

“The Independence Park , as the greatest open space in the Jakarta city is located right in the middle of the city. This park is indeed an enormous green open space that one could possibly enjoy nowhere else in the city. But the first necessity in understanding how cities and their parks influence each other is to throw out confusion between real uses and mythical uses of a park.”
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2004

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Urban

Vibrant the City (English language)

Article about preserving Kali Besar the old town of Jakarta in comparison to Malacca and Singapore ; published in the Jakarta Post newspaper.

“It had become public knowledge that Kali Besar- Jakarta is a neglected precious historic buildings area. It's ashamed that we have done so little of what is so big valued historical downtown of Jakarta . Some of the fortunate preserved historic buildings façade were leave as it was by color and material. Few –though we can't called it unfortunate- were painted with new colors based on perhaps the personal preference of the owner regardless the total entity of Kali Besar strip. While the rest of it suffered gradual destruction caused by both humans and nature. Wrecked walls and windows leaves dramatic sight of the untold but blatant failure of preserving heritage buildings in the Jakarta Kota area. “
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2003

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History – Urban review

Malacca (English language)

Article about Malacca, the old city in Malaysia that survive the modernization; published in the Jakarta Post newspaper

“How would we remember a city? Is it by the roads and buildings that we passed through? By the food we ate at a certain store? By unfamiliar faces of people we met on the street?We could find thousands more of answers, still it would come back with the sense of place in our mind.The sense of place is defined by time-historical and political time-, they do not work with timetables, lists of departure and arrival times. Old cities usually leaves one with a certain image of a frozen ‘here, now and then' place. “
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2003

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Urban Conservation review

Kuta Shop Space (English language)

article about the unique Kuta shop space, the cooperation and competition between each retail; published in the Jakarta Post newspaper

Though it is a nicely scale of public space, one would find Legian sometimes annoying with all the traffic jam and sudden rhythmic changing of density in Kuta area which always fluctuated especially on holiday season. One might also notice the lack of public service (such as free benches to sit, public toilet, public pay phone) in Legian, Kuta.
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2003

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Urban review

Super Adobe Architecture (English language)

article about super adobe architecture (by Nader Khalili) and the possibility to use the idea for emergency housing in Indonesia ; published in Kompas newspaper

“Reading newspaper's headlines in this last couple of weeks about Nunukan should have make people consider the case as a disaster. It is a man-made disaster of hundreds displaced humans stranded homeless with incalculable damage to life and property.They live in weak roughly built hut -some of them made of plywood or plastic- exposed to severe weather, which constantly endanger their health condition.”
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2002

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Architecture

The Young Indonesian Architects Exhibition – Towards the new Indonesian Architecture?

Architecture exhibition review wrote and published for SKETSA architecture magazine.
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2001

Architecture Exhibition review

Fumihiko Maki Crematorium

Article about Kaze nu Oka crematorium published in SKETSA architecture magazine.
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2000

Architecture review

Sogo Jongkok, a profile of Jakarta Spirit

Article about Sogo Jongkok Tanah Abang – Jakarta , published in d!a Magazine
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2000

Public Market review

Publications