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The Malay house: Rediscovering Malaysias indigenous shelter system

The Malay house: Rediscovering Malaysias indigenous shelter system book

The Malay house: Rediscovering Malaysias indigenous shelter system

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The traditional Malay house is one of the richest components of Malaysia's cultural heritage. Designed and built by the villagers themselves, it manifests the creative and aesthetic skills of the Malays. It is a near-perfect houseform which is appropriate to local climatic conditions and expresses the way of life of its inhabitants. The house is extremely well designed to suit the warm and humid Malaysian climate and for the optimal and multifunctional use of space. Its design is also flexible as it caters to the widely different needs of the users and it has an addition system which allows the house to be extended to meet the growing needs of each family. Fully illustrated by full-colour photographs and three-dimensional drawings, this book documents the architecture of the traditional Malay house, giving details of the various housetypes, the construction system, the climatic design and the adaptations to the social and cultural needs of the Malays. This book is essential for those interested in Malaysian culture, indigenous architecture and the future of housing for the people in the Third World. -- "The best book that I've seen on any indigenous architecture... I've seen no better examination of how a successful building type works. This is a brilliant and beautiful book on a superbly adaptive vernacular house form." - Stuart Brand, creator of The Whole Earth Catalog.
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Published: English
ISBN10:
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