Between Rail and River: Notes in Time on Kluang is an architectural study of Kluang, a town in Johor, Malaysia, made as its ageing urban fabric faces redevelopment.
About This Book
Drawn from architectural research by E9A and edited by Wong Jian Lin, the book looks closely at Kluang's modernist buildings and the town that grew up around them. Rather than a conventional survey, it assembles interviews, press clippings and images—some documentary, some imagined—into a layered record of a place in transition. Threading personal stories through the architecture, it asks readers to rethink familiar ideas of growth and progress and to pay closer attention to the histories, realities and possibilities of life outside the big metropolitan centres.
Key Features
- Architectural research centred on a regional Malaysian town rather than a capital city
- Interviews, clippings and real and imagined imagery woven together
- Human narratives set alongside the buildings themselves
- A large-format layout that gives space to its visual material
What You'll Discover
- The modernist architecture of Kluang and the town's urban fabric
- What redevelopment means for an ageing regional town
- How oral history and archival material can inform architectural research
- Alternative ways of thinking about progress beyond the metropolis
About the Editor
Wong Jian Lin is a Malaysian architect and researcher. This publication grows out of architectural research undertaken by E9A.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 210 × 300 mm
- Pages: 123
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9786299998549
- Publisher: Suburbia Projects
Perfect For: readers interested in Southeast Asian modernism, architectural heritage and the life of small cities, and researchers working with oral history in architecture.