From Costa Rica, architect Bruno Stagno not only reflects on how responses to the environment can be the main basis for inspiration and identity in architecture but also proposes going a little ...
“The wind of change is blowing through this continent,” declared British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in the Ghanaian capital Accra in 1960. “Whether we like it or not, this growth of national ...
"This is a mood book, concise in its information and lavish in its photography. It celebrates the sensual qualities and vivid beauty that add up to the tropical architecture of one of the culturally ...
"My childhood in Hong Kong was shaped by a particular style of building," said Calvin Po in The Spectator: market halls with brise-soleils – slatted screens – shielding us from the midday glare; ...
Conference Topic: Housing Futures in the Tropics: Resilience, Sustainability, and Action The International Network for Tropical Architecture (INTA) invites scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and ...
Tourists flock to Miami Beach to stroll the streets lined with the city-defining art deco design. But the wave of permanent transplants to the city is staying for the tropical modernism that has for ...
The prevailing story of tropical modernism in the Global South has long overlooked the contributions of local architects and engineers, writes Mohamed Ismail. Growing up on Mount Makiling in Los Baños ...
Though there’s been a design pivot to incorporate more indoor and outdoor living and more washed and stylistic use of concrete in recent years, tropical brutalism isn’t new. It’s a design style that’s ...
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