Author Description

Made Wijaya was an architecture student travelling in the Indonesian archipelago when he leapt overboard and swam to Bali’s southern shore during a rainstorm in 1974. Now an internationally renowned landscape and architectural designer, he has drawn on his photographic archives, compiled over the past thirty years, to present this unparalleled visual study of Balinese architecture; its origins, elements, variations and vagaries. An overview of Balinese architecture in its context is followed by a look at its basic elements - the walled courtyard and the pavilion - in their full variety and their structural details. Moving through the book, Bali’s intricate built landscape becomes legible and even more surprising. With a sharp eye for trends, and passionate opinions about how local design principles should be applied, Wijaya enhances his survey of traditional Balinese architecture with examples of its adaptation in modern private houses and hotel architecture on Bali.