Selasa, 07 Agustus 2007

JAVANESE & INDONESIAN ARCHITECTURE

Except the pillars that are supposed to be Grecian, and the metal fence that is not supposed to be there at all, the picture above contains all that is Javanese in architectural matters.

The basic, the first to be seen, and the main philosophized clutter of Javanese architecture is a vast wall-less space named 'pendhopo' (Indonesian language adopted this term into 'pendapa'), the outermost part of a construxion called 'joglo'.

Joglo looks like this:

The joglo like in the picture above, to be specific, is the Central Javanese architectural 'trademark', which, after 1900, gradually got confined to public spaces and dwellings of those with 'the Authorities' (the definition of which changed according to circumstances).

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