Foreword by Lyndon Neri | Text by David Hutama | Photographs by Davy Linggar
Project Editor: Suzy Annetta | Content Editor: Philip Annett
August 2024
275 colour illustrations | Hardback | £50 | ISBN 9780500343753
The first monograph from Indonesia's most celebrated and exciting architect, showcasing a selection of his residential projects, including his own astonishing home.
“For Andra, the houses in this book serve not as mere containers and backdrops for life, but rather dwellings as expressions of values drawn from the most intimate planes of existence and from personal attachments.”
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Table of Contents
Tropicality: Houses by Andra Matin brings together sixteen tropical houses designed by andramatin over the last two decades. Showing exquisite craftsmanship and lush tropicality, each house provides living environments that exist effortlessly in harmony with their surroundings.
Tropicality in architecture is not merely a response to climate or topography, but also takes into consideration the identity of a place. Andra Matin presents tropicality as a design approach that is extracted from various building practices in the Indonesian archipelago. Nature, climate, geography and topography are fundamental constraints that at the same time, provide invaluable opportunities for place-making. From a house elevated on stilts that's completely open to the outdoors, to one topped with a giant, overhanging concrete roof, to a hexagonal weekend villa hidden amongst the trees, these are homes that will delight and inspire anyone with an interest in beautiful spaces.
Working in a tropical climate in a huge country where the architecture scene is often overlooked, Matin has come to redefine indoor-outdoor living. His work is widely admired across the region, but many of his projects have rarely been seen. Matin's novel approach, revealed here in his first English-language monograph, has much to teach – especially as it continues to gain momentum and relevance in a warming world.
This book is a part of the Wonders of Weaving campaign called WOWRead which aims to increase the prevalence of Asian Architecture Literacy.
Andra Matin is Indonesia's best-known and most lauded architect. Born in Bandung, he studied at Parahyangan University in his hometown, before setting up his namesake practice in 1998. Matin is one of the founders of Arsitek Muda Indonesia (AMI – English: Young Architects of Indonesia). His accolades include Winner of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022, Winner of The Luminary Category at INDE.Awards 2020, and a Special Mention Award at the 16th Venice Biennale, 2018. This is his first English-language book.
Lyndon Neri is the co-founder of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China.
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