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House in the American Tropics 12

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Photography by Nelson Kon
Querosene House in São Paulo, Brazil by grupoSP. Via CONTEMPORIST.

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Photography by Nelson Kon
House in Santa Teresa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by SPBR Arquitetos. Via ArchDaily.

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James King House, São Paulo, Brazil by Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Via Leonardo Finotti blog.

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Photography by Leonardo Finotti
Derby Residence, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil by O Norte Oficina de Criacao. Via archdaily brasil.

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Photo by pkestudio
Juranda House, Vila Beatriz, Sao Paulo, Brazil by Apiacás Arquitetos. Via archdaily.

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Cover of 1:100 #34


20120905

House in the Asian Tropics 9

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a21house, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by a21studio. Via designboom.
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20120904

House in the Asian Tropics 8

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Safari Roof House, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia by kevin low small projects. Via archnet. Photography by Kevin Low.
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Palmyra House, Alibagh, India by Studio Mumbai Architects. Via Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Photography by Rajesh Vora.
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20120901

Archicouture

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Striking similarity in fashion. Left: Toyo Ito in Vienna Architecture Biennale 2012. Right: Steve Carell in Date Night.
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Film and architecture. Via dezeen, blogspot.
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20120830

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Casa no Vale das Araras in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, Brazil by arquitectos associados. Via plataforma architectura. Photography by Leonardo Finotti.
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Casa Grove in Florida by MATEU Architecture. Via contemporist. 
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House in the African Tropics 2

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House in the African Tropics 1

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Two Houses in Mauritius by Rethink Studio. Via Archdaily. Photography by Gordon Mackenzie-Kennedy.
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International Architect 2

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Life Cycles

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20120814

House in the Asian Tropics 5

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Because it's Tadao Ando—and his only known work in the tropics (I think).

20120801

House in the Asian Tropics 4

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Approach from west showing brick-vaulted entrance
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I first saw Wall House about 6 or 7 years ago in a book The New Asian House by Robert Powell. Located in Auroville, India, it's definitive of a house in the tropics—open and breezy during the hot, humid seasons while firm enough to withstand the harsh monsoons. The aesthetics is muted and material palette limited, with reinforced concrete as its bones and bricks as its flesh. Other natural materials are used as well—wood for fenestrations and furnishings, stones in ledges.
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Pottery used as floor forms
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Cantilever bedroom with jalousie windows
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Open-to-sky bath
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Living room with bi-folding doors and windows
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Approach from east
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House in the Asian Tropics 3


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Street view, portrait

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Street view, landscape

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View from living room showing use of front court

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56+55 Sumeru is a refurbishment and addition project in Ahmedabad by Vastu Shilpa Consultants, a firm founded by Balkrishna Doshi.
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The architecture fits with the context (well, at least from the picture), very compactly planned yet looking spacious, built with simple materials, and opened for cross ventilation and ample daylighting.
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Found on Archdaily.
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Designer Communication


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New MAS Context issue on designer communication:
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"As designers, we are pretty good at understanding the bigger picture of problems and we are able to distill them into their main ideas and necessary actions. It is fantastic asset that we develop and continuously refine throughout our career. Often, we like to share and discuss those ideas and actions with our peers, all agreeing on the potential of design in addressing the pressing issues that we face..."
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Read more.

20120610

[AD201201-02] London (Re) Generation

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When the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games open in July, the enormity of the changes to East London will be as dramatic for any visitor from the West End, who has not recently visited Stratford, as for a tourist from Australia. The Games have involved the construction of new sporting venues, most conspicuously the Velodrome by Hopkins Architects, the Olympic Stadium by Populous and the Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects. They have also included extensive new permanent housing in the Olympic and Paralympic Village. Perhaps most far-reaching for the area, though, has been the whole-scale decontamination and cleanup of the Lea Valley which was undertaken before any building work took place. The Games have also facilitated a new level of investment in much-needed infrastructure to East London, with new rail and transport links. They are also leaving in their wake a beautifully landscaped public park—of a size that has not been built since the 19th century.
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It was clear that AD should both mark and review the changing face of its home city in 2012. The theme of regeneration has been embraced by guest-editor David Littlefield, who invited an impressive cast of contributors not only to survey the shifts in the metropolis in East London and elsewhere, but also to question the currency of regeneration itself. When so much lip service is paid to the concept of regeneration, there is the very real danger that it is becoming devalued and may come to mean everything and nothing. What is clear, though, is that regeneration remains to be broadly understood as being about positive change—a force for the good—even if there are widely diverging views about the dynamics of this force and the projects that can truly be categorised as regenerative. At a time when private partnerships have become a requirement for any kind of development, at the large scale requiring injections of capital from overseas, commercial concerns have become the driving force. As Murray Fraser so aptly charts in his article (see pages 14-21), global investment has also impacted the nature of development in the capital in recent years. There has been a marked shift from a US model of urbanism to a more global one, influenced by investors from the Middle East, Far East, Russia and Australia. How can this capital be captured/countered to ensure schemes remain regenerative at a local level? Are there existing models of long-term stewardship that can be drawn on in development? How can we keep championing the needs of the periphery or edge, as well as the commercial centre, without the intervention of effective public bodies?
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—Helen Castle
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20120517

House in the American Tropics 1

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House on the Gulf of Mexico I:
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"The guest house to a 1957 house designed by Paul Rudolph is on a 535-foot wide sand bar near Sarasota, Florida. The Gulf of Mexico is to the west, Sarasota Bay to the East. The Gulf side is a protected sea turtle habitat; the bay side a protected manatee habitat. The house is built on the footprint of a structure destroyed by a hurricane. The densely planted site is exposed to extreme climatic conditions—hurricanes, floods, downpours, and strong sun. To protect the house from hurricanes, storm surges and flooding, the house is raised seventeen feet above sea level. Sheltered by live oaks, palms and mangroves, it is reached by an exterior stainless steel staircase. The stair becomes the new "center" of the house to connect and separate activities within."
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Toshiko Mori
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Picture from the Tropical Modernism
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