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""The architecture of the West is well-known and recognizable across the world. The sustainable architecture of Southeast Asia-inspired by environment and a thriving and distinct culture-is a hidden pearl in the world of architectural design. In New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture, author Philip Goad explores a region and a modern architecture that is complex and thriving. Featuring extended profiles of the region's most innovative and influential architects, this book covers a full complement of their recent projects in tropical Asia with plans, drawings, beautiful full-color photographs and insightful text. Inspired by fresh agendas, such as simplicity and rethinking congregational spaces, the designs in this book dazzle with a bold new perspective. The 400 color photographs in this book will put you in beachfront scenes where the waves crash only inches from your feet; dreaming poolside at glamorous hotels; relaxing in gorgeous luxury homes with flawless Asian decor; and finally, will bring you face to face with the most innovative concepts in all of Asian architecture.""

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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 Design

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 Design 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 Eleven influential architects are profiled, many of them returnees to the region with an acute sense of where they came from ... -PostMagazine, Hong Kong 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

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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.

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