Architecture of Bali: A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms (Latitude 20 Books)
Editorial Reviews Book Description This is at once a compendium for designers and an entertaining essay on the architecture of Asia's most glamorous tropical island by one of its foremost admirers. Landscape and architectural designer Made Wijaya draws on his extensive photographic archives, compiled over the past 30 years, to present a visual study of Balinese architecture: its origins, elements, variations, and vagaries.
The book opens with an overview of Balinese architecture in its human context--the village. It then looks at the basic elements of Balinese architecture--the walled courtyard and the pavilion. Further chapters examine building materials, the Balinese love of ornamentation and the architectural hybrids resulting from other ethnic influences. Progressing through the book, Bali's intricate built landscape becomes legible and ever more surprising.
With a sharp eye for trends, and passionate opinions about how Balinese design principles should be applied, Wijaya enhances his survey of traditional Balinese architecture with examples of its adaptation in modern private houses and boutique hotels on the island. In addition to Wijaya's own archive photographs, the book is illustrated with the work of internationally acclaimed artists; specialist photographers including Tim Street-Porter and Rio Helmi; and drawings by Chang Huai-Yan and Deni Chung.
Designers will find Architecture of Bali useful as a source book for materials, built form, ornamentation and ideas about the use of space. Lovers of Bali will welcome its documentation of a rapidly changing world. About the Author Made Wijaya, born Michael White in Sydney, Australia, was an architecture student traveling in the Indonesian archipelago when he leapt overboard and swam to Bali's southern shore during a rainstorm in 1973. He has made his home in Bali ever since. His Balinese name was given to him by the Brahmana family who welcomed him into their fold and guided his initiation into the Balinese Hindu religion and its complex culture. During his early years in Bali, he made a living coaching tennis and as an English teacher at the local dance academy. He also wrote a popular column, "Stranger in Paradise," for the English-language edition of The Bali Post. Over the last two decades, he has built a successful landscape and architectural design firm and in 1999 published Tropical Garden Design.
Made Wijaya's fascination with traditional Balinese architecture--aided by his uncanny facility with the Balinese language--led him to study its practice first-hand with local artisans and Balinese master builders, the priest-architects known as undagi. In 1983, he began to document this study in a now avidly collected cloth-bound photocopy edition of Balinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopedia, illustrated with his own photographs (each copy including several color prints pasted into the pages). This volume has grown out of that earlier work.
Architecture of Bali: A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms (Latitude 20 Books),Made Wijaya,University of Hawaii Press,0824826833,Architecture,Bali (Province),General,Indonesia,International Architecture - Asian,Professional Practice,Reference
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