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The Living House: An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
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In Praise of Shadows
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Southeast Asian Houses: Embracing Urban Context
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Becoming Places: Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power
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Southeast Asian Houses: Expanding Tradition
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The Tao of Architecture
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Elements of Spacemaking
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The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House
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Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian Architecture
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China's New Dawn: An Architectural Transformation
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Digital Archetypes: Adaptations of Early Temple Architecture in South and Southeast Asia
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Water Architecture in South Asia: A Study of Types, Development and Meanings
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Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in Singapore
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Southeast Asia's Modern Architecture: Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power
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Jiat-Hwee Chang (Editor)
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Southeast Asia and Oceania (World Architecture 1900-2000: A Critical Mosaic)
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Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development
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Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia: A Traveler's Guide through history, ruins and landscapes
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Theorizing The Southeast Asian City As Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, And Interpretative Experiences
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Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia
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Interactions with a Violent Past: Reading Post-Conflict Landscapes in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
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Vatthana Pholsena (Editor)
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Southeast Asian Grasslands: Understanding a Vernacular Landscape: Canonical Readings (Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden, 21)
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Michael R. Dove (Editor)
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Agroforestry in Rice-production Landscapes in Southeast Asia: A Practical Manual
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Asia's Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century
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West Asia in a Changing World: The Emerging Regional Architecture and India
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Bansidhar Pradhan (Editor)
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Diversity in the Great Unity: Regional Yuan Architecture
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Asia's Response to Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Implications for an Evolving Regional Architecture
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Global Shocks and the New Global and Regional Financial Architecture: Asian Perspectives
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Naoyuki Yoshino (editor)
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Architecture Asia: Cultural Identity and Social Responsibility
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Architects Regional Council Asia (Editor)
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Architecture Asia: Globalization and Locality
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Architects Regional Council Asia (Editor)
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The Temple Architecture of India
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Masonic Temples: Freemasonry, Ritual Architecture, and Masculine Archetypes
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Celestial Symbols: Symbolism in Doctrine, Religious Traditions and Temple Architecture
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Soviet Asia: Soviet Modernist Architecture in Central Asia
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Introduction to Japanese Architecture (Periplus Asian Architecture Series)
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Traditions in Architecture: Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania
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Bali Houses: New Wave Asian Architecture and Design
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New Directions in Tropical Asian Architecture
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Introduction to Indian Architecture (Periplus Asian Architecture Series)
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Introduction to Balinese Architecture (Periplus Asian Architecture Series)
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The New Asian Architecture: Vernacular Traditions and Contemporary Style
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Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts
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Jeffrey W. Cody (Editor)
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Islamic Architecture in South Asia: Pakistan-India-Bangledesh
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The Palaces of South-East Asia: Architecture and Customs
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Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius
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Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan's Premodern Capital
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Matthew Stavros (Goodreads Author)
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Contemporary Vernacular: Evoking Traditions In Asian Architecture
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Art and Architecture of South Asia Changes and Continuity
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Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture by Dhar, Parul Pandya (2010) Hardcover
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Architecture Asia: Living in the 21st Century
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Architects Regional Council Asia (Editor)
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Military Architecture of Northeast Asia after Korean Reunification
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