Name Hijjas Kasturi | Spouse Angela Jane Longworth | |
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Children Serina Hijjas, Suyani Hijjas, Mulaika Hijjas, Bilqis Hijjas Similar Ken Yeang, Samy Vellu, Tan Loke Mun | ||
Hijjas bin Kasturi (born 1936) is a Kuala Lumpur-based Architect. Active for more than fifty years, he has been responsible for some of the most significant buildings in South East Asia, in the modern, postmodern, and deconstructivist styles. He is considered the father of Malaysian architecture of the second half of the twentieth century.
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Early life
Hijjas was born in Singapore in 1936. His Chinese mother was raised in Indonesia and then married a Singaporean Javanese. He and went to Raffles Institute to continue his secondary education, and he was then granted a scholarship by the Australian Government to study at the University of Adelaide; he eventually graduated from the University of Melbourne. He moved to Malaysia in 1967 and founded the first professional degree program in Malaysia, The School of Art and Architecture at MARA Institute of Technology. In 1977, he founded his own practice, Hijjas Kasturi Associates Sdn (HKAS).
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Notable buildings
Hijjas was the architect of Wisma Equity one of the most prominent brutalist buildings constructed in Malaysia. Located at 150, Jalan Ampang, 50450, Kuala Lumpur, it is on a prominent site and was completed in 1982. It was officially opened in 1983 by Dato Elyasbin Omar. Wisma Equity is an 11 floors office building including a lower ground. It is made of exposed concrete, and the building appears to defy gravity and structure by becoming larger as it rises. In this regard, it bears a formal similarity to Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum in New York City.
Major buildings designed by Hijjas Kasturi Associates include the Menara Maybank (1989), Tabung Haji (1986), Telekom Tower (2001), Putrajaya International Convention Centre (2003) and the 4G11 Tower in Putrajaya (2008).
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Personal life
Hijjas married an Australian woman from Melbourne, Elizabeth Fay Wilson, and the couple had three children who were born in Australia, including daughter Serina Hijjas. Serina Hijjas now serves as director of Hijjas Kasturi Associates Sdn. Hijjas is now married to Angela Jane Longworth, with whom he has two daughters.