Architecture of Bali: A Source Book of Traditional and Modern Forms (Latitude 20 Books)
Made Wijaya, born Michael White in Sydney, Australia, was an architecture student traveling in the Indonesian archipelago when he leapt overboard and swam to Bali's southern shore during a rainstorm in 1973. He has made his home in Bali ever since. His Balinese name was given to him by the Brahmana family who welcomed him into their fold and guided his initiation into the Balinese Hindu religion and its complex culture. During his early years in Bali, he made a living coaching tennis and as an English teacher at the local dance academy. He also wrote a popular column, "Stranger in Paradise," for the English-language edition ofThe Bali Post.Over the last two decades, he has built a successful landscape and architectural design firm and in 1999 publishedTropical Garden Design.Made Wijaya's fascination with traditional Balinese architecture--aided by his uncanny facility with the Balinese language--led him to study its practice first-hand with local artisans and Balinese master builders, the priest-architects known asundagi.In 1983, he began to document this study in a now avidly collected cloth-bound photocopy edition ofBalinese Architecture: Towards an Encyclopedia,illustrated with his own photographs (each copy including several color prints pasted into the pages). This volume has grown out of that earlier work.