The Tropical Asian House

Download or read book The Tropical Asian House written by Robert Powell and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of 27 outstanding contemporary houses from South East Asia; a culturally-rich region which has seen in recent years some of the world's most dynamic architectural development. Fom Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, this selection represents the work of talented architects including Geoffrey Bawa and Charles Correa, as well as others who are searching for their own cultural imprint. The interior and exterior of each house is shown. Each project is described and analysed by the author who focuses his instinctive response to each house in its particular geographical context The cultural influences affecting the organization of spaces are identified together with a study of how tradition, religion, Western ideas and the forces of globalization fuse together to produce a distinctive contemporary tropical architecture.