
New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture
India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand
Tuttle Publishing
Will be published approx. on 10. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-8048-5035-3 (ISBN)
Description
From three architecture industry experts comes a book nearly as sophisticated as the luxury homes profiled within. Inspired by new architectural agendas, such as rethinking congregational spaces and promoting a minimalist lifestyle, the luxury homes from across of Southeast Asia collected in this book dazzle with a bold new perspective on modern architecture. The 400 colour photographs inside place you in beachfront scenes where the waves crash only inches from your feet; where you laze dreamily, jungle-side, in dazzling hotels; and finally, you come face to face with the most innovative concepts in all of Asia. With an additional 200 architectural plans to further inspire modern architecture aficionados, New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture presents breathtaking specimens from throughout Southeast Asia, including: India Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Sri Lanka ThailandLet the luxury homes and residences in this book wow you, and open your eyes to a side of Southeast Asian architecture that you've never seen before.
Reviews / Votes
"Display the unique work of some of the most interesting and influential architects in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Java and Bali... " -Haven, Malaysia "Eleven influential architects are profiled, many of them returnees to the region with an acute sense of where they came from ... " -PostMagazine, Hong Kong "The rationale for an examination of new directions in tropical Asian architecture is not hard to find. First and foremost, it is simply overdue. Secondly, this book represents one step in opening up the region to greater scrutiny, to a greater embrace of its complexity. It provides documentation that will stimulate self-reflexive analysis, rather than analysis that is reliant on Western benchmarks of what is deemed to be good. And thirdly, the discourse which has recently arisen from this region has been mired in stereotype, and criticism has foundered on a singular focus on the 'tropical house' or 'tropical resort'." -Philip Goad, Professor of Architecture and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne "It is Tropical Asia's ability to transform modern imperatives to suit its own ideological frameworks that makes its architecture exciting and different. In the post-national era, the new Asian citizen has left the dappled light of the tropical verandah for the reflected light of the shopping mall, the muted glow of the video arcade and the neon flicker of the city street. But how have the region's architects begun to programme, conceptualise, and design for this future? The works in this book go far in answering this question." -Anoma Pieris, Associate Professor in Architecture, Melbourne School of DesignMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
400 colour photos; 200 architectural plans
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
975 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8048-5035-3 (9780804850353)
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Philip Goad | Anoma Pieris
New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture
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10/2014
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Persons
Philip Goad is Professor of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.Anoma Pieris is an Associate Professor in Architecture, Melbourne School of Design and the co-author of Houses of the 21st Century.Patrick Bingham-Hall is an architectural photographer and the editor of Pesaro Publishing.