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Theories of architecture, one of the most interesting class which teach you about the architecture world stories and the people philosophy about the world and architecture. it’s one of the best class i have ever had , it changed the way which I use o think about architecture and it shown me how is everyone has different thinking and opinion . This class teach me many different things which i haven’t known before about the architecture world environment and the world memories . However, there are many things to learn from this subject ,I hope that , I have learned enough information from this class .

I have learned in theories of architecture class, how I can think widely about the architecture, environment and the people stories. I have known more about the space concept and how I get the concept for the space. I have learned how I can I use my seven senses to see and feel the architecture and the building. I knew how the architects make a connection between gad and human in the architecture, by building a holly building. I have learned how the architecture apply their emotions and their stories in architecture, and they made a memory for the whole future to see and remember. So, I have learned how I apply an emotion and memory to my design. I knew how the war makes aesthetics and ruins to the building and it give a bad effect to the human and environment, and it keep the in the memory for the life time. I have knew that , our family home which we all grow up in ,effect us and effect our architecture style by remembering our home . In fact, I have learned many important and different things to make me a better architect in the future.

The best moment in this class was the trip to kelie’s castle, because it shown me the old English architecture in Malaysia and the romantic story behind it . it gave me chance to spent time with me classmates out of the university . The best thing that, I have discovered a new beautiful place in Malaysia . In the end, I will never forget the kelie’s castle and the romantic story.

The worst moment in this class was at the first time I attended the class , because I had only a general idea about the subject , and I felt really bad when I read the first essay because it was very difficult to understand and difficult to write about it .

I’m architecture student now, I will try to give the world a better life by making perfect green building in the future with a memory which will never be forgotten.

The pleasure of architecture

back days , architects who attempted to experience pleasure in architecture was considered decadent and politically the socially conscious have rejected it as a reactionary concern . in the same time architecture has relegated to the left every thing remotely political with discourse of pleasure . oppositions are reflected the recent history of architecture ' order and disorder / structure and chaos /... ' these oppositions have been loaded with moral overtones . the morals ere strong for long time . the beyond is opposites lie , the architecture definition is reinforce and amplify the impossible alternatives , but architecture in their definition is as a thing of the mind , conceptual discipline with it's typological variation , on the other people thinking the architecture definition is as an empirical event the concentrates on the senses , on the experience the space .

a double pleasure is unspoken or untouchable thing , it comes with the experience , it's like differences between every thing has an against ' left and right / up and down / symmetries and unsymmetries /...' the pleasure of geometry by extension . the pleasure of order is the pleasure of concepts . so architecture is a thing of the mind , geometrical rather than a experiential art , so the problem of architecture becomes a problem of ordinance . however , the pleasure of space is not the pleasure of geometry is the pleasure of architecture .

gardens of pleasure , in 1765 the architects weren't merely a reaction of the baroque style , and the deconstruction of architecture that they suggested we an early venture into th realm of pleasure , against the architecture order of time . the perspective of the renaissance garden were applied to the square of renaissance cities , the garden have had a strong fate . but in fact , the garden has the pleasure and eroticism , pleasure of space with the pleasure of reason in a useless manner .

pleasure and necessity , it must alway come with the architecture , it's useless with out it . long time ago , architectural is ideology of time but after while the social proved different by reduced to dreams , and now determined more by logic of land economical . in general , most architectural seems hopeless dilemma . on the other hand , they sanctuarize themselves , their architecture is accused of elitism . if there has lately been some reason to doubt the necessity of architecture , then the necessity of architecture may well be its non-necessity .

metaphor of order bondage , it's the non necessity of architecture is undissociable from architectural histories , these are bonds enhance pleasure . the architecture must be played by rules of accept or reject . the different between the rules and the ropes is irrelevant , the more numerous and sophisticated the restraints , the greater the pleasure .

rational in architecture and utopia , has recalled the pleasure of rationality and irrational dissolution recalled erotic concerns . the word had got different meaning , use here as a theoretical concept but it also it has the sexual analogies . eroticism is a subtle matter , it doesn't mean simply the different from eroticism as a simple spatial perception in different from architecture . however , the pleasure of architecture is that impossible moment when as architectural act and immediate experience of space .

metaphor of seduction, architecture is the same as the pleasure without seduction or seduction without illusion . the concept become the artifacts of seduction . however , when the architect try to find out the solution of the problem which we can called mask , they will get another mask to figure out and they will get other mask after it ., it won't end , and each mask has different meaning for architecture .

excess , the pleasure itself is simple masquerade when the mask doesn't belong to the universe of pleasure .when the sensual pleasure of space conflicts with the pleasure of order . the resent widespread fascination with the history of architecture doesn't necessarily mean a return to blind obedience to past dogma .

architecture of pleasure lie where concept of space abruptly coincide , no metaphorical paradise but discomfort and unbalancing of expectation .the architecture pleasure depend on feat , to debility or delirious neurosis .

advertisements for architecture ,architecture is an image , it can't be produce by drawing on paper only . even the construction which have never been constructed has an image inside the architect imagination . mask is the word which we use in architecture because it means hints at some thing else behind itself .it may hide it but also implies at the same time . the unveiling is part of pleasure of architecture .

architecture fragments are like beginnings without ends , there is always a split between fragment which is real and that virtual . architecture is an emotion not a dream ,for every construction there is an image in mind .

Kellie castle

william Kellie Smith was from a village in Scotland known as Kellas. In 1890, at the age of 20, he arrived in the then undeveloped Malaya. Smith started planting rubber trees and dabbled in the tin mining industry. In time, he became the owner of Kinta Kellas Estate and the Kinta Kellas Tin Dredging Company.Now with his fortune made, he returned home to marry his Scottish woman brought her over to Malaysia in 1903. The following year, the couple was blessed with a daughter whom they named Helen. For many years after that, William Smith desperately wanted a son and heir to take over his empire in the Malay Isles. After many years, Agnes finally gave birth to a son, Anthony, in 1915. The birth of his child was the start of even greater success for William Smith. To celebrate Anthony's birth, William Smith decided to expand on his mansion. Smith started planning for a huge castle which he planned to call Kellas House, after his hometown in Scotland.

Unfortunately for Smith, tragedies struck soon after the construction of the Kellas House began. A virulent strain of the Spanish flu spread from Europe to Asia soon after World War I ended in Europe, killing many of the workers in the Kellas Estate. Another seventy workers constructing Smith's dream castle also became victims of the flu. In the end, Kellas House, later known as Kellie's Castle or even Kellie's Folly to some, was never completed.William Kellie Smith himself died of pneumonia during a short trip to Portugal in 1926. His heartbroken wife decided to pack up and return home to Scotland selling the estate and Kellie's Castle to a British company .

I consider the Kellie castle beautiful .

This photo from the back of Kellie castle . It shown the strong and sold repetition on the arches at the ground floor and the opening at the first floor .

This photo from at the living room at the second floor , It shown the beautiful view of the river and the mountain .

This photo at the guest room at the first floor , The room has one of the most beautiful and big arch at Kellie castle .

This photo at the library at the first floor , It shown the amazing crafts at the wall .

This photo from out side of the Kellie castle , It shown the corner windows , each of them give different views .

the guest room

The spaces create a historical and romantic feeling to the visitors . It shown , how much william loved his wife by romantic way , and his children especially his son . The history of the old time in malaysia .