[.uk] Burmese: Design & Architecture (ISBN 0794604633)

A Perfect Balance:
Burmese Design and Architecture by Johni. Falconer, et al, offers a perfect balance between excellent photography and enlighting commentary, which together bring alive the splendor of Burmese, Mon, Arakan and other architectural styles. Certainly a recommended book for the Southeast-Asia enthusiast!

Burmese: Design and Architecture:
We are going to Burma in a few months so we are interested in all things Burmese. The book is gorgeous and well done. I gave a copy to our neighbor a retired Burmese Doctor...she loved it...the book is well done..well organized...and the pictures are excellent. It is a paper back. Now if they just had Democracy in Burma (Myanmar) instead of the present military dictatorship, the world would be better place.

Very interesting but not representative:
I think it's a very interesting book, architecturally. But as a Burmese person myself, I don't recognize most of the architecture as being from Burma. I think they are definitely Burmese influenced but I wonder who in Burma can really afford to have that built, and most rich people in Burma don't really live in those kinds of homes. In any case, I am sure there are some that do and then, those that aren't in Burma, I think it's great they use the Burmese elements in their buildings.