Iconic Tropical House Hardcover by Patrick Bingham-Hall

Product Details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson (2025-09-23)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 304 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780500027011
• Item Weight: 2131.92 grams
• Dimensions: 28.65 x 26.7 x 3.15 cm

The best and most memorable tropical houses from the last fifty years.

This stunningly illustrated volume presents forty-five of the most interesting tropical houses of the last fifty years, surveying India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, and northern Australia.

Author Patrick Bingham-Hall sets the houses in context, arguing that climate, colonization, and modernism, as well as geopolitical events, increasing prosperity, and even air-conditioning since the end of World War II, have created a very specific set of circumstances and therefore houses. This includes buildings with pitched roofs, broad overhangs and eaves, verandas, big doors, and windows, which optimize airflow and solar orientation. Larger-than-life, open to the elements, this is soaring architecture with a strong sense of place.

The Iconic Tropical House shows readers that this is architecture that’s inherently environmentally attuned and innately sustainable. It’s also a book of lush, jaw-dropping houses that seamlessly blend indoor and out, in locations anyone would want to visit.

About the Author

Patrick Bingham-Hall is based in Sydney, Australia, and has published over fifty books on architecture, design, landscape, and urban planning, including WOHA: New Forms of Sustainable Architecture.