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Warm, inviting, embracing the indoor-outdoor lifestyle with a touch
of the exotic, tropical modern homes are a dream of paradise
realized. Contemporary tropical residential architecture has risen
from a geographically specific homegrown aesthetic to a source of
inspiration for the world's great modern architects and designers.
Set in exotic locales, with pools, lush foliage, colorful gardens,
these homes define a way of life. Frequently elegant and
uncluttered, the houses serve as models of smart and beautiful
design with lots of ideas for homeowners who do not necessarily
live in a tropical or subtropical climate, but who wish to have
something of that appeal and sensitivity in their own home. This
book presents some of the most innovative interpretations of the
genre from the past five years by internationally recognized
architects and interior decorators, such as Tadao Ando, as well the
work of young up-and-comers of great talent, including German-born,
Bali-based Alexis Dornier, and Mexico's Roof Arquitectos. Selected
residences span the globe, from the southern United States, the
Caribbean, and tropical regions of Latin America, to Southeast
Asia, northern Australasia, and Africa. Modern Tropical explores
the exotic material, color, cultural, environmental, and aesthetic
choices of some of contemporary architecture's most beautiful
residential properties. Each house is introduced with breathtaking
interior and exterior photography and orientation plans, giving
readers an in-depth glimpse of the rapidly evolving symbiosis
between nature and shelter, indoor and outdoor, and rustic and
polished, in a definitive examination of tropical modern living.
This fascinating sourcebook presents the most remarkable,
beautiful, and innovative building fa ades in contemporary
architecture. A building's fa ade sets the aesthetic tone for its
entire design while serving a variety of functions, from regulating
light and protecting against the elements to providing insulation
for temperature and sound. This absorbing book details hundreds of
examples of interesting and progressive fa ades from around the
world. Presented in colorful double-page spreads, each fa ade is
photographed from different angles and includes engaging texts that
describe their significance. Readers can learn how traditional
mashrabiyas in Abu Dhabi are being engineered to respond to light
and to regulate heat, how a hospital in Mexico City has been
constructed with "smog-eating" tiles, and how a "bio-adaptive" fa
ade in Germany uses algae to generate energy and provide shade.
Informative and accessible, this compendium is a highly useful
resource for architects, engineers, and designers.
Frequently elegant and uncluttered, these houses serve as models of
smart and often exquisite design with lots of ideas for homeowners
who don't necessarily live in a waterfront home, but who wish to
have something of that appeal and sensitivity in their own space. A
range of projects encompassing myriad geographic and cultural
inspirations show some of the world's most inviting residences,
built in stone and glass, in wood and steel and concrete. The
houses vary in size and style, though all within the realm of the
modern, from open plan homes that include terraces and rooms that
flow from indoors to out, to spaces flooded with light and views.
Each house is photographed comprehensively with detailed interior
and exterior pictures and plans, and placed into context through
the lens of widely respected editor Oscar Riera Ojeda and
descriptive texts written by design critic Byron Hawes, to give
readers a privileged look at the best of shore-side residential
architecture. With its beautiful modernist homes set beside the
golden sands of the gulf coast of Mexico or upon the romantic
islands of Greece, from Finland to South Africa to New Zealand,
Houses by the Shore is a paean to rooms with a view.
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