Author: POWELL, ROBERT,
Title: The Tropical Asian House. [First edition].
Description: Singapore, Thames & Hudson, 1996. Large 8°. Original cloth. Title on cover and spine in bold silvered type. Dustjacket. 176pp. Numerous captioned coloured plates and illustrations featuring architecure of in-and exteriors of big Asian houses, numerous line drawing in text featuring designs for gardens, some ground plans in text and full-page also featuring garden design, selected bibliography, author's notes to text and a double-page sketch-map with legenda illustrating the discussed Area of South and Southeast Asia at rear end, table of contents. Ample detailed english langusge survey in which architecture and garden disign is described, explained and discussed, e.g.:Country life, Beach front, Rooms with a view, Fringe benefits, City limits from Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, the Philippines, India..Very fine copy WITH DUSTJACKET.

Keywords: asia architecture design gardendesign tropics topography urbanization ludury villas culture heritage construction indonesia philippines srilanka southeastasia india malaysia housing wealth