Title: Houses for 21st Century
ISBN: 978 1 877015 10 6
Pages: 224
Format: 230 x 250 mm Hardback
Price: SGD $60

Edited by Geoffrey London
General Editor Patrick Bingham-Hall
Essays by Anoma Pieris, Geoffrey London, Paul Walker, Justine Clark, Amanda Achmadi, Pirak Anurakyawachon and Philip Goad
Photographs by Patrick Bingham-Hall

The houses featured in this book are from Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. This region is marked by a history of climate-responsive architecture, with the single detached villas as the most valued model for housing. It is also marked by extreme disparities between wealth and poverty, and by legacies of colonial occupation.

The search for an independent cultural identity, and for an architecture that is emblematic of that identity, is a recurring characteristic of the region.
The architecture examined in this book is refreshing, fashioned directly by political, social and climatic pressures, together with powerful individual ideas, resulting in a wide range of formal responses. This book offers an overview, exposing tendencies and suggesting possibilities that may have resonance beyond the region. 36 houses are documented with photographs, drawings and project text.

Featured architects include Adi Purnomo, Architecture Workshop, SCDA, Seksan Design, Donovan Hill, Karn Boontarik, Stutchbury and Pape, Ahmad Djuhara, Shyamika Silva, Anupama Kundoo, Cheong Yew Kuan, Fearon Hay, Ngiom, Tinakorn Rujinarong, Tan Kok Meng and Ling Hao, Blacket Smith, Kevin Low, Vijitha Basnayaka, Clinton Murray, CSYA, Boonlert Hemvijitraphran, Mitchell and Stout, Sean Godsell, Hiranti Welandawe, Dominic Dube, Danial Sanjaya, Jane Weatherall and Geoffrey Warn, Pornchai Boonsom, Peter Skinner and Elizabeth Watson-Brown, WOHA
and Kerstin Thompson.