An overview of Balinese architecture in its context is followed by a look at its basic elements – the walled courtyard and the pavilion – in their full variety and their structural details. Moving through the book, Bali’s intricate built landscape becomes legible and even more surprising.
This is at once a compendium for designers and an entertaining essay on the architecture of Asia’s most glamorous tropical island by one of its foremost admirers. Designers will find Architecture of Bali indispensable as a sourcebook for materials, built form, ornamentation and ideas about the use of space; lovers of Bali will want it for its documentation of a rapidly changing world; and it will be essential reading for anyone interested in ethnic architecture.
