We Need to Talk About Air Conditioning
Ken Yeang’s design for the Ganendra Art House is aggressively local, just not in the way you’d expect.
The City
The City
The Generic City
The Generic City is a city free of context, history and identity. It is a blank slate, allowing its inhabitants to make of themselves what they will.
The City
The Verandah Riots
And you thought you were passionate about architecture.
Material Culture
The Evolution of the Indian Palace
From intimate to imperial.
Material Culture
Islam-ish
Trying to define a word can be very difficult sometimes.
The Jungle
Trop Picks: Durian
Do cities die?
The City
The Open Hand
The inspiration behind Moshe Safdie’s design for the Art Science Museum in Singapore: Le Corbusier’s “Open Hand” in Chandigarh?
Material Culture
Minka: A Single-Family Detached Home
The Minka or the Japanese farmhouse was one of the earliest forms of the single-family detached home.
Material Culture
A Building of Note: the Leeum
Completed in 2004, South Korea’s Leeum was born of a Cinderella moment.
International Relations
A Bit of Singapore in Sidhpur?
Noting a remarkable similarity between the homes of the Dawoodi Bohras of Sidhpur and the Peranakan Chinese.