A mosque is a place of worship for Muslims. The mosque's architectural elements include domes (roofs), mihrab, minarets, portals, and decorative ornaments. Elements of mosque architecture can express the identity of a mosque. Minaret often acts as a marker of the mosque's existence on a city scale. The minaret's design elements are the minaret head, minaret body, openings, ornaments, and structures that can be either integrated or separated from the mosque building. Five mosques located in Malang City are used as a case study in this research: Jami Great Mosque Malang, Sabilillah Mosque, Nurul Muttaqin Mosque, Ahmad Yani Mosque, and Manarul Huda Mosque. The people's preference for the characteristics of the minaret of mosque architecture in Malang City was analyzed using the conjoined analysis method. The purpose of this study is (1) Identify the variety of minaret design elements in mosque architecture in Malang City, (2) Understanding people's preferences for the composition of the minaret design elements, and (3) Analysing the characteristics of minaret based on community preference on the composition of mosque architecture in Malang City. The results showed that based on community preferences on the composition of mosque architecture in Malang City, the preferred characteristics of the minaret are (1) The shape of the minaret is a conical octagon, (2) The shape of the minaret head is a top dome, (3) The number of minarets is two, (4) Has an ornament, (5) Minaret structure is separate from the mosque building, and (6) Has an opening.

ABSTRAKPenelitian tentang studi golden section pada fasade bangunan di kawasan Kayutangan, Malang ini memiliki tujuan spesifik yaitu (1). Mengevaluasi proporsi fasade bangunan di Kayutangan, Malang berdasarkan teori golden section dan (2). Menghasilkan rekomendasi desain fasade bangunan di Kayutangan, Malang yang proporsional dan sesuai dengan golden section. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi terhadap fasade bangunan di dua sisi koridor jalan tersebut dengan instrumen distance meter, kemudian digambarkan komposisinya secara digital secara dua dimensi. Selanjutnya data dianalisis proporsinya menggunakan golden section dan dilanjutkan dengan membuat simulasi digital khususnya untuk fasade bangunan yang proporsinya tidak sesuai dengan golden section. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa fasade bangunan di Kayutangan, Malang 10 % memiliki proporsi lebar dan tinggi bangunan sesuai dengan golden section dan 90 % tidak sesuai dengan golden section. Hasil penelitian ini diharapkan dapat menjadi rekomendasi desain bagi penataan dan pembenahan estetika kota, khususnya di kawasan Kayutangan, Malang maupun dapat menjadi rujukan bagi pihak-pihak yang ingin melakukan studi sejenis di kawasan lainnya.

Potensi dan kondisi lingkungan pedesaan Bendosari, di Kecamatan Pujon, Kabupaten Malang, nampaknya ada kecenderungan ketidak-setimbangan dan selarasan Estetika Bentang Alamnya. Salah satu upaya pelestarian menjaga kesetimbangan dan keselarasan bentang alamnya, melalui kajian bentang alam lingkungan pedesaan di daerah tersebut. Metoda yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian secara kualitatif, melalui survey dan wawancara untuk memperoleh konfigurasi visual dan fisikal dan interelasi bentang alamnya dengan fungsi-guna bagi masyarakat desanya. Interelasi dan organisasi visual dan fisikal lingkungan alam dan lingkungan buatan pedesaan tersebut, terkait tersusun erat secara fisik, visualnya mengikuti fisik dan masih didominasi visual alami kecuali di pusat desanya. Fungsi-guna pada konfigurasi visual dan fisikal yang ada tersebut oleh sebagian besar penduduk pedesaan, masih secara alami dan tradisional namun sebagian yang dipusat desa sudah secara artifisial dan modern.

The phenomenon of the big text signs in almost all cities in Indonesia to mark the name of a place that is already known by the surrounding community will ultimately affect the collective knowledge of citizens. It is just that the presence of big writing is no longer unique when all the cities are busy creating and becoming stereotypes. However, without any endemic uniqueness that can be highlighted and proud of, the city's sense of place becomes a cliche. Its presence has plagued like a disease and become a talkative phenomenon for urbanites in Indonesia, Malang City is no exception. This study aims to interpret the phenomenon of urban space typography design in semiotics based on the pragmatic paradigm through the second semiosis process of the relation between representamen (signs) and objects in the city of Malang. The selected objects are typography of Malang City Square, Batu City Square, Idjen Boulevard, Brawijaya University, and Malang State University. This study uses a descriptive mix-method approach in exploring the meaning of the audience and understanding interpretants of the phenomenon of a series of uppercase letters in the urban space. The study shows that there is a relationship between the representamen (signs) and objects as icons and indexes. Nevertheless, it has not yet reached the relationship as symbols.