ESSENCE OF PLACE: Making Local Architecture

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Essence of Place: Making Local Architecture is the first book by one of Malaysia’s leading architects Eleena Jamil, from Eleena Jamil Architects. The book emphasizes the importance of rooting projects to a place by way of exploring the experiential potential of form, material, and construction and a concern for the environmental, social, and economic aspects of sustainability.

This book contains images of EJA’s work as well as essays by Eleena on the motivations behind, and influences on, her practice – including the importance of place and the vernacular local architecture of Malaysia – and how her work is situated within the context-based design as a whole.

Foreword by Dean Hawkes

Published by Artifice, London.

ISBN: 978-1-911339-51-9

192 pages, 240 X 170mm, paperback, 2024