Building a Malay house / Phillip Gibbs in collaboration with Yahya Abdul Rahman and Zamani Kassim ; illustrated by Lim Jee Yuan
Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
1987
Information About
This study aims to re-examine the traditional building forms and procedures of the Malay house system, which has evolved, with Malay culture, over many centuries. The system incorporates the beliefs of the Malays and responds to their way of life. It uses the resources abundant on the peninsula. The study was undertaken in the hope that an increased knowledge of traditional building forms and procedures would allow for some aspects of these to be incorporated into the design of a new form of housing for the Malay peninsula.
Additional Details
- Title
- Building a Malay house / Phillip Gibbs in collaboration with Yahya Abdul Rahman and Zamani Kassim ; illustrated by Lim Jee Yuan
- Creators
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- Gibbs, Phillip
- Subject
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- Malays--Malaysia
- Malays--Social life and customs
- House construction--Malaysia
- Dwellings--Malaysia
- Publisher
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- Oxford University Press, 1987
- National Library Board Singapore, 1987
- Contributors
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- Yahya Abdul Rahman, 1949-
- Zamani Kassim
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ix, 99 p., [12] p. of col. plates ill., maps
- Table of Contents
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- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Part I. The Malay house. 1. A traditional way of thinking. 2. The Malay village. 3. The Malay House. 4. Malay house types -- Part II. The Malay house system. 5. The Malay spirit world. 6. Selecting the site, timber and time for building. 7. Footings, roofs and tools. 8. Searching for the base of the house. 9. Semangat and three ceremonies -- Glossary -- Select bibliography.
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.