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Modern tropical : houses in the sun / Oscar Riera Ojeda and Byron Hawes.

By: Ojeda, Oscar Riera [author.]Contributor(s): Hawes, Byron [editor,, art director.]Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Rizzoli, c2018Description: 333 pages : color photographs, map ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780847860036; 0847860035Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE, TROPICAL | BUILDING -- TROPICAL CONDITIONS | INTERIOR DECORATION -- TROPICS | ARCHITECTURE -- TROPICALGenre/Form: Photobooks. | Photobooks.DDC classification: 720/.47 LOC classification: NA 2542 O85 2018Other classification: TU241.1

Partial contents:

Introduction by Byron Hawes -- Projects -- Architects profiles.

Summary: "Warm, inviting, embracing the indoor-outdoor lifestyle with a touch of the exotic, tropical modern homes are a dream of paradise realized."--Amazon.Summary: "Contemporary tropical residential architecture has risen from a geographically specific homegrown aesthetic to a source of inspiration for the world's great modern architects... This book examines some of the most innovative interpretations of the genre by internationally recognized architects and interior decorators... '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, and placed into context through the critical eye of respected architecture editor Oscar Riera Ojeda and descriptive texts written by design and lifestyle critic Byron Hawes, to give 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"-- Source other than Library of Congress.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	NU Fairview College LRC	NU Fairview College LRC	School of Architecture	General Circulation	GC NA 2542 O85 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		NUFAI000004753

Introduction by Byron Hawes -- Projects -- Architects profiles.

"Warm, inviting, embracing the indoor-outdoor lifestyle with a touch of the exotic, tropical modern homes are a dream of paradise realized."--Amazon.

"Contemporary tropical residential architecture has risen from a geographically specific homegrown aesthetic to a source of inspiration for the world's great modern architects... This book examines some of the most innovative interpretations of the genre by internationally recognized architects and interior decorators... '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, and placed into context through the critical eye of respected architecture editor Oscar Riera Ojeda and descriptive texts written by design and lifestyle critic Byron Hawes, to give 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"-- Source other than Library of Congress.

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