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Hijjas Kasturi
Malaysian architect (born )
Hijjas bin Kasturi (born 26 September ) is a Malaysian architect.[1] 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.
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He is considered the father of Malaysian architecture of the second half of the twentieth century.[2]
Early life
Hijjas was born in Singapore in 26 September His Chinese mother was raised in Indonesia and then married a Singaporean Javanese.[3] He 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 and founded the first professional degree program in Malaysia, The School of Art and Architecture at MARA Institute of Technology. In , he founded his own practice, Hij