Michael White (Made Wijaya)

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CreatorMade WijayaBiographical Notes

Made Wijaya (alias Michael White) was a renowned Bali-based, Australian-born, architect and landscape designer, best known for working on international projects for such celebrities as David Bowie. He was the author of pioneering books on Balinese vernacular architecture. He also authored more recently a study on Javanese Majapahit art and architecture. Just before passing away in August 2016, he donated his entire photographic collection on architecture and garden design to the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak library. The photographic collection centres on vernacular architecture of the archipelago, covers other parts of the world, including his own designs.

This will be an occasion to commemorate Made Wijaya’s achievements as an architect and most of all as an unflagging explorer of Javanese and Balinese rituals, arts, architectural forms and design and their survival into the twenty first century. Speakers will discuss his legacy and the importance of his research for the understanding of cultural and architectural history, and give the public a first glimpse into this remarkable documentation.

In a career spanning more than 30 years, Made Wijaya compiled a photographic archive of architectures and tropical gardens in Bali and beyond. ISEAS Library is fortunate to be the home of his collection of some 40,000 photographs.

The collection, deposited with ISEAS in three tranches in 1986, 1992 and 2016, presents visual documentation of vernacular architecture and its adaptation in Wijaya’s designs.

For more information, you may also visit here (brings you out of SEALionPLUS) to view the buildings that were designed/built under Made Wijaya's consultation photographs at PT. Wijaya Tribwana International.

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