The houses featured in this book are from Sri Lanka,India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,Australia and New Zealand. This region is markedby a history of climate-responsive architecture, withthe single detached villa as the most valued modelfor housing. It is also marked by extreme disparitiesbetween wealth and poverty, and by the legacies ofcolonial occupation.

This book offers an overview, exposing tendenciesand suggesting possibilities that may have resonancebeyond the region.

Of all architectural forms, houses are the most culturally sensitive to their times, so what could we expect to see in a '21st Century House'?

"...houses for the 21st Century are no longer bewitched by the utopian possibilities of advanced technology. Any universal utopianism seems unlikely in these more knowing, less optimistic times - the houses demonstrate a response to what is known and tangible. There is a strong interest in the tactile - the quality, texture and presence of materiality rather than immateriality. There is a preference for substance, rather than absence.., the materials are local, with several instances of inventive recycling...and the houses offer carefully considered critiques of what has preceded them, in political, cultural and architectural terms. They are deeply connected with their sites and with their location, and respond directly to local climate and to social conventions.They are not abstract objects that could be found in any other city in the world.

In the face of growing globalization, it is to theirspecificity that they lay claim?

The houses featured in this book are from Sri Lanka,India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,Australia and New Zealand. This region is markedby a history of climate-responsive architecture, withthe single detached villa as the most valued modelfor housing. It is also marked by extreme disparitiesbetween wealth and poverty, and by the legacies ofcolonial occupation.

The search for an independent cultural identity,and for an architecture that is emblematic of thatidentity, is a recurring characteristic of the region.The architecture examined in this book is refreshing,fashioned directly by political, social and climaticpressures, together with powerful individual ideas,resulting in a wide range of formal responses.

This book offers an overview, exposing tendenciesand suggesting possibilities that may have resonancebeyond the region.

THE 21ST CENTURY HOUSE

Geoffrey London

OUTSIDE THE TROPICAL HOUSE

Anoma Pieris

INDONESIA: THE EMERGENCE

OF A NEW ARCHITECTURAL

CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE URBAN

MIDDLE CLASS

Amanda Achmadi

RECENT THAI HOUSES:

DIVERSITY WITHOUT INTEGRATION

Pirak Anurakyawachon

BEYOND THE VERNACULAR HOUSE

Anoma Pieris

AN ONGOING PREOCCUPATION:

AUSTRALIA AND THE SMALL HOUSE

Philip Goad

MAKING A DIFFERENCE:

NEW ZEALAND HOUSES AT THE

BEGINNING OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Justine Clark and Paul Walker

A CONCISE HISTORY OF FUTURE

HOUSES: ON THE 'OTHER' SIDE OF

THE WORLD

Philip Goad

KARN BOONTARIK

Lubid Studio Bangkok

STUTCHBURY AND PAPE

Harbour House Newcastle

ADI PURNOMO

Urban House Jakarta

ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP

Oriental Bay HOUSe Wellington

SCDA ARCHITECTS

Andrew Road House Singapore

SEKSAN DESIGN

Tempinis House Kuala Lumpur

DONOVAN HILL

D House Brisbane

AHMAD DJUHARA

Steel House Jakarta

SHYAM|KA SILVA

Nalin Indrasena House Colonlho

ANUPAMA KUNDOO

Anupama Kundoo House Auroville

CY KUAN

Hardy House Bali

FEARON HAY

Rawhiti House Bay of Island

NGIOM PARTNERSHIP

Pat's House Selangor

TINAKORN RUJINARONG

Rujinarong's House Bangkok

TAN KOK MENG + LING HAD

Villa 0 Singapore

BLACKET SMITH

Victoria Park House Perth

KEVIN LOW

Kevin Low House Kuala Lampur

VIJITHA BASNAYAKA

Maulie De Saram House Colombo

CLINTON MURRAY

Overcliffe Sydney

CHAU SAU YAN ASSOCIATES

Tupai House Singapore

DONOVAN HILL

N House Brisbane

BOONLERT HEMVIJITRAPHRAN

Vit Vattanayolhin's House Bangkok

MITCHELL AND STOUT

Waitamariki House Bay of Islands

SEAN GODSELL

Peninsula House MorningTON Peninsula

HIRANTI WELANDAWE

Marel Nivasa House Colombo

DOMINIC DUBE

lnge's House Auroville

DANIEL SANDJAJA

Coba House Denpasar

JANE WETHERALL AND

GEOFFREY WARN

Click House Perth

ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP

Wakefield Street Apartments Wellington

PORNCHAI BOONSOM

MnG House Bangkok

PETER SKINNER AND

ELIZABETH WATSON-BROWN

St Lucia House Brisbane

WOHA ARCHITECTS

Hua Guan House Singapore

ADI PURNOMO

Ciganjur House Jakarta

KERSTIN THOMPSON

House at Lake Connewarre Leopold

SEKSAN DESIGN

Sekeping Serendah House Serendah

CY KUAN

Courtyard House Bali

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