User:Indon/Thomas Karsten
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Thomas Karsten (1885–1945) was a Dutch engineer who gave major contributions in the history of architecture and town planning in Indonesia. Between 1915 and 1941 he was appointed to be responsible to plan 12 out of 19 municipalities in Java, 3 out of 9 towns in Sumatra and the only town in Borneo. Karsten's major contribution was to his ideas where he integrated the practice of colonial architectural and town planning with native elements.
[edit] Early life
Raised in a patrician family, where his father was a professor in philosophy and a university vice-chancellor, young Thomas Karsten had developed himself with progressive and liberal ideas. He enrolled at the Delft Polytechnische Shool (precursor of the Delft University of Technology) in the Netherlands and studied, initially mechanical engineering, thereafter the structural engineering after the school had major institutional reforms. Karsten was not among the leader in his study, but he managed to graduate where the faculty had only produced a very small number of graduates (between 3 and 10 until 1920).
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[edit] References
- Joost Coté (2004). "Colonial designs: Thomas Karsten and the planning of urban Indonesia". 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia.
