Tropical houses : living in natural paradise

Author(s)

• Street-Porter, Tim

Bibliographic Information

Tropical houses : living in natural paradise

Tim Street-Porter

Thames & Hudson, 2002

• : pbk

Note

First* published: 2000

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Internationally renowned photographer and writer Tim Street-Porter has spent more than ten years travelling through Bali, Java, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Belize and Jamaica. This book's stunning photographs, supported by fascinating and informed commentary, capture the appeal of the enviable dwellings he found on his journeys.

Table of Contents

Introduction Designing in the Tropics - Vernacular Traditions - Colonial Style Jamaica Good Hope - Woodstock - Utopia - Strawberry Hill - Round Hill Sri Lanka Charles Hulse Residence - Tangalle - The Sunhouse - Taprobane - Lununganga Java Omere - Cipicong Bali The Bamboo House - Linda Garland House - Villa Bebok - Villa Agnes - Amir Rabik Compound - The Hardy Residence - Begawan Giri - The House at Isch Mexico and Belize Casa Clark - Las Alamandas - Casa dos Estrellas - Casa Colibri - Casa Quebrada - Blancaneaux Lodge - Brignone

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Details

• NCID: BA66320243
• ISBN:
  • 0500283893
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 252 p.
• Size: 28 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 747.2913
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Interior decoration -- Tropics
  • LCSH : Architecture, Domestic -- Tropics