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The architectural icons of new Malaysia is none more apparent than the iconic Petronas Twin Towers and the jewel city of Putrajaya. These buildings are an architectural representation to the public of the cultural and political symbol of the new Malaysia. However, it is not the much vaunted aesthetic characters of these buildings that concern the author but more so the central role of local architects in the design and implementation of the human built environment in this study of a crisis in Malaysian architecture. This book consists of a series of articles and papers written between 1997 and 2003 published in The Star, the New Straits Times and Majalalı Arkitek and also presented at various seminars locally and overseas. The ikas presented by the author in these articles and papers encapsulate his academic struggle as an academician for a more 'moralistic' vision by local architects. The author's espoMINal of function as the all encompassing criteria, including aesthetic, structural and psychological ones has led him being branded a theoretic architect by practising architects. In the Malaysian architectural environment where most architects shun theory, it is the author's lone voice that calls for its relevance in informing practice. Thought provoking to ideologues though hardly icoNoclastic to practising architects, this book should appeal to academicians, architects and politicians who will find the author's honest and at times brash opinions an eye opener. However the puse may seem, the philosophy behind it is that a human built environment should stand thc test of time in serving the intenked people it was built for.