These are my take on this wonderful church. Multicultural by nature, this place brings out existential questions about culture, beliefs and religions.

Photographically, these photos are when I was learning and experimenting with digital-infrared photography, gotta love those digital grains :)
All photos are taken by me, please inform me undi.gunawan@uph.edu if you want to use it for non commercial or commercial purposes.

My first intercontinental trip during my youth. The pyramids, the grand mosques, Tahrir Square, The Coptic area, the view of the city from the Citadel… this small resolution photos bring back my memory.

Saqqara

Tahrir Square

The Necropolis

The Citadel

Coptic Area

Wish I could visit Cairo again …

Two years ago I visited this place. Full of life and meaning… a place.

Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene, Manila, 2020.
Photographed by Undi Gunawan

People said, Instagram is no longer suitable social media platform for photographers. Then it’s probably a time to retroactively using a more traditional platform; blog and website.

It’s been a while I’m starting to post on my IG (@oenggun_sketches)

oenggun Sketches

Feel free to follow, yet probably I’m going to be rekindling the energy for posting and writing in a blog format… it’s always been a long time desire to, yet consistency is becoming the most valuable resource today?

It started out at the last of May 2022, when I start firing up my idle cameras. Sure then I start from objects around my place.
This dead leaf caught my eyes, it suddenly reminded me about the value of life and dead. Ah, … may be I’m just overly drown into melancholia. But what’s is photography? What is art in this matter? For me it’s a bridge to things and ideas, and sharing it anywhere, IG or not IG, it...

I still have some ‘mind’-project about his ideas. .. Seems like he’s an interesting person with a sense of aesthetics.

Theoretical Hybrid becomes the topic of this semester class. The class will bring a series of topics and discussions. More updates will follow up later.

How to understand culture in our practical-everyday life ?

This random triangular note happens to emerge to my attention today. Culture needs to be backed up by policy and economy. Policy acts as conscious decision-makings and negotiations and economy acts as resources management, whether they’re tangible or intangible ones.

This triangle of culture-policy and economy cannot act alone. It’s being supported by the infra-structure and the supra-structure; ideology. These three-layered structure on how we can understand culture, and how culture can be ‘operational’ in our daily life.

Any suggestions?

Deskripsi:
Ini adalah sebuah workshop membaca dan menulis dengan tema “Arsitektur dan Teknologi 2021”. Workshop ini akan berpusaran pada buku Braham, W. W., Hale, J. A., & Sadar, J. S. (Eds.). (2007). Rethinking technology: A reader in architectural theory. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. sebagai sebuah buku utama. Buku ini meskipun terbit lebih dari 10 tahun lalu, namun buku ini menyajikan kumpulan pemikiran dari para arsitek, teoritis, dan filsuf mengenai Arsitektur dan Teknologi. Itulah sebabnya tema Arsitektur dan Teknologi 2021 menjadi sebuah tema yang tepat bagi kita semua untuk melakukan proses memikirkan kembali topik ini dan memandangnya secara kritis.

Operasional Workshop:
Workshop ini akan terdiri dari 3 (tiga) sesi utama yang merupakan sebuah kesatuan proses membaca-berpikir-menulis terkait dengan topik ini. Pada pertemuan pertama, dan bahkan ketika workshop ini...

Instruktur: Dr. Undi Gunawan ST., MT.
Ruang: MS Teams dan Zoom
Email: undi.gunawan@uph.edu
Kuliah: 13:00-16:00, Senin
Mulai: 11 Jan 2021
Selesai: 26 April 2021

📜 Deskripsi

Dalam mata kuliah ini mahasiswa diharapkan akan mengenali dan memahami teori arsitektur modern dan kontemporer. Mata kuliah ini merupakan tahap akhir dari mata kuliah rumpun Teori dan Sejarah Arsitektur di Program Studi Arsitektur, School of Design, UNIVERSITAS PELITA HARAPAN.

Pada semester ini, mata kuliah berpusat dari pemetaan dan paparan buku Crysler, C. G., Cairns, S., & Heynen, H. (Eds.). (2012). The SAGE handbook of architectural theory. SAGE Publications. yang terdiri dari delapan (8) tema:

1. Power/Difference/Embodiment
2. Aesthetics/Pleasure/Excess
3. Nation/World/Spectacle
4. History/Memory/Tradition
5. Design/Production/Practice
6. Science/Technology/Virtuality
7. Nature/Ecology/Sustainability
8. City/Metropolis/Territory