Soejoedi Wirjoatmodjo
Definition
Indonesian architect (1928–1981) and one of the key figures of Indonesian modernist state architecture alongside Friedrich Silaban. Soejoedi designed several of Indonesia's most significant Sukarno-era national buildings, including the Conefo (Conference of the New Emerging Forces) complex — now the DPR/MPR building — in Jakarta. His work pursued a monumental modernism inflected with symbolic Indonesian motifs, reflecting the political ambitions of the early republic.
Example
The DPR/MPR building (People's Consultative Assembly) in Jakarta (1965), designed by Soejoedi, features a curved roof form evoking a traditional Javanese pendopo at monumental scale — an attempt to give the new republic's parliament a distinctly Indonesian architectural identity rather than a generic modernist box.