**Warm, inviting, embracing the indoor-outdoor lifestyle with a touch of
the exotic, tropical modern homes are a dream of paradise realized.
**
Contemporary tropical residential architecture has risen from a
geographically specific homegrown aesthetic to a source of inspiration
for the world's great modern architects and designers. Set in exotic
locales, with pools, lush foliage, colorful gardens, these homes define
a way of life. Frequently elegant and uncluttered, the houses serve as
models of smart and beautiful design with lots of ideas for homeowners
who do not necessarily live in a tropical or subtropical climate, but
who wish to have something of that appeal and sensitivity in their own
home.
This book presents some of the most innovative interpretations of the
genre from the past five years by internationally recognized architects
and interior decorators, such as Tadao Ando, as well the work of young
up-and-comers of great talent, including German-born, Bali-based Alexis
Dornier, and Mexico's Roof Arquitectos. Selected residences span the
globe, from the southern United States, the Caribbean, and tropical
regions of Latin America, to Southeast Asia, northern Australasia, and
Africa. Modern Tropical explores the exotic material, color, cultural,
environmental, and aesthetic choices of some of contemporary
architecture's most beautiful residential properties. Each house is
introduced with breathtaking interior and exterior photography and
orientation plans, giving readers an in-depth glimpse of the rapidly
evolving symbiosis between nature and shelter, indoor and outdoor, and
rustic and polished, in a definitive examination of tropical modern
living.
