Abstract
The paradigm of traditionality in Indonesian modern architecture becomes a polemical discourse especially in relation to the development of Indonesian architecture identity in the post-colonial era. The awareness and spirit of exploring identities give birth to new experiments and ideas, assuming traditionality as the anti-thesis of Indonesian International-Style modernism initiated during the Old Order. The focus of this research is to explore different operation and practice of the paradigm in Indonesian architecture discourse much or less alluded with power and politics during the Old and New Order. The aim of this research is to redefine the meaning of traditionality in Indonesian Modern Architecture. This research uses qualitative approach by using a discursive method to analyse the representation of traditionality in Indonesian post-colonial architecture. The author expects to elaborate the manifesto of traditionality through a categorization that is based on the implementation of values, forms, processes, and changes toward the condition of the current development.
Highlights
The paradigm of traditionality in Indonesian modern architecture had been initiated by Dutch East Indies modern architects during the colonial era
Architecture was used as a political means for development to display national identity [1]
The traditional dynamics of Indonesian development is highly affected by the politics and the government at that time
Summary
The paradigm of traditionality in Indonesian modern architecture had been initiated by Dutch East Indies modern architects during the colonial era. Van Ramond (1954), in his speech entitled “Toward an Indonesian Architecture”, mentioned the development of traditionality in Indonesia He observed that Indonesian tradition and culture had long been dormant but manifested interest to the foreign culture to show its own progress [2]. Architecture” discourse as a critique for numerous government and private buildings that promote Javanese culture as the representative of Indonesian architecture [4]. They realized that, in the search of the supposedly-applied Indonesian architecture for development, it showed new ideas in understanding the role of traditionality. This research has two specific objectives—that is, attempting to redefine the meaning of traditionality within the discourse of Indonesian modern architecture, and exploring traditionality as an effort to formulate “national” image within post-colonial architecture era
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