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The Malay ‘Garden City’: An Ethos of Malay Historic Urbanism
In Malaysia, the Malay garden is one of the country’s first ethnic gardens. The Malay lifestyles are well suited to the influence of community...
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Ecology, Structure and the Regalia: Framing the Evolving Language of Malay Architecture
Discourse on Malay Nusantara architectural language generally focuses on its evolving timber elements, construction and expressions. Its abstractions...
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Tracing Water-Land Architectural Symbolisms of the Malay Nusantara
The resonances of the archipelago’s climatic and topographical environment are found in the imageries contained within its urban iconographic...
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Sinusoidal Curve in Floral Motifs of Malay Woodcarving: A Preliminary Study
Woodcarving is the art and science of ornamenting wood, which plays an important element in traditional Malay structure. Generally, the construction...
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The Mound and the Malay Nusantara Historic Landscape
The existence and formation of historic urbanscapes in Southeast Asia are characterised by geographical landforms such as hills, mounds, and...
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In the Sanctity of Light and Shadows: The Traditional Mosques
This chapter represents the understanding of daylight characteristics of traditional environments in the Nusantara Malay region based on the...
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Older Malay Muslim Women in Brunei Darussalam: A Non-Western Conception of Aging
This chapter examines older Muslim women from a postcolonial perspective and details the relevance of spirituality to aging in Brunei Darussalam. Ten...
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Queer Craft and Radical Cuts: Tradition, Transgenderism, and the Malay-Muslim Body in the Work of Anne Samat
The work of Malaysian artist Anne Samat (b. 1973) is premised chiefly on the adaptation of weaving techniques, such as songket, and the use of found...
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From Archipelago to Architecture: The Sacred Center and the Pillared Space
Andaya (2008) describes maritime Southeast Asia as a region evolving from a network of centers or mandalas. Such mandalas are often described as...
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Climate and Archetype: Vernacular House-Forms as Tropical Urban Ideations
The rise of the sustainable agenda must face the reality of tropical regions, which must grow their own archetypes and models of sustainable...
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The Layered Space: Permutations of the Portico
The portico is the essence of tropical form and represents the quintessential architectural character of the South East Asian tropics. The variations...
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The Travelling Text: Manuscripts, Print Culture and Translation in the Making of the Malay World
The principal focus for this study is the historic role of linguistic translation in the creation of a multiethnic, multilingual Malay world....
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The ‘Punctured’ Pavilions
While the term pillared space highlights how such open columnar structures had permeated and characterised the notion of the sacred urban ‘centre’ of...
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The Matriarch, the Matrilineal System, and the Minangkabau Rumah Gadang
Some researchers argue that the term matriarchy is not a construct based on the gendered division of political power, but one based on gendered...
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Eco-Inflections of the ‘Mandalic’ City-Form: Morphologies of the Pre-Colonial Urban Cores
The recognition of morphological layers in the evolving dynamic histories of South East Asian urban centres is crucial in understanding the original...
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Animals and the City: A Southeast Asian Historical Perspective
More recent discourses in urban ecology, urban geography, and urban planning have led to the realisation, as an outcome of the Covid-19 pandemic, of...
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Between Toponymy and Cartography: An Evolving Geography of Heritage in George Town, Malaysia
This chapter traces the unfolding of the toponymic politics in George Town, Malaysia in the context of the country’s postcolonial multiculturalism....
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Re-acculturising the Tropical City: From Theory to Practice
The word acculturise generally means to cause (a nation, tribe, or other ethnic group) to adopt the culture of another people. Though it is related...
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Contemporary Heritage-Built Attractions
During his speech in Parliament on 5 November 1970, Edmund W. Barker, the National Development Minister at the time, expressed concerns about the...
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Marking Boundaries of Water and Land: Bridges and Gateways
This chapter discusses two boundary markers of the city in the form of gateways and bridges—which can be argued as a form of gateway—over land and...