This biographical monograph is probably the only pictorial and a narration document about a living architectural legacy, the father of the modernist architecture in Malaysia, Dato' (Dr.) Ar. Hj. Baharuddin Abu Kassim. Born on 1929 in Jeram, Selangor to a MalayBugis descent family, Dato' Baharuddin received his formal education in architecture and planning at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom in 1958.