The Asian House
By Robert Powell.
Description
The Asian House showcases, for the first time, outstanding contemporary houses from five Southeast Asian countries in a single volume.This book demonstrates how a generation of post-colonial architects have successfully drawn upon their rich cultural backgrounds to produce modern Southeast Asian dwellings. Vernacular architectural forms, spatial relationships and indigenous materials are adapted and synthesised with Western architecture and technology to produce gracious dwellings which are responsive to tropical ecology and Asian lifestyles.In presenting the material, the author skilfully ...
ISBN(s)
9625933298, 9789625933290
