The Architecture of Dutch Colonial Office in （荷兰殖民的体系结构办公室）.pdf

International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume 5, Issue 4, April 2015 1 ISSN 2250-3153 The Architecture of Dutch Colonial Office in Indonesia and the Adaptation to Tropical Climate 1 2 3 4 Antonius Ardiyanto , Achmad Djunaedi , Ikaputra , Jatmika Adi Suryabrata 1Faculty member of Department of Architecture Soegijapranata Chatolic University of Semarang, Indonesia, ardi_diet@ Ph.D candidate Department of Architecture and Planning Gadjahmada University Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2Professor, Department of Architecture and Planning GMU Yogyakarta, Indonesia, mailto:wiendu@ 3Professor, Department of Architecture and Planning GMU Yogyakarta, Indonesia 4Professor, Department of Architecture and Planning GMU Yogyakarta, Indonesia Abstracts- Dutch colonization to Indonesian occurred for about 350 years. During this time, a lot of colonial buildings were built in Indonesia with various typologies and architectures which were developed in the era. It was the shape and typology of the building which was similar to the buildings in Netherland (17th century) or Europe and the architecture which was developed and influenced by modern architecture (20th century) that are developing in all over the world. In the early 20th century, Dutch architects started to work in big cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Semarang, Medan, etc. In its practice, the architects developed the building designs by considering the architectural character and local climate that is humid-tropical climate