Architecture Bali-Birth Of The Tropical Boutique Resort

This book, like so much of Bali, entails the telling of a story. Like any story there are the tensions between the sacred and the profane the high and the low especially as the main subject of this story, the hotel, by its very function, would seem to go against the persistence and resilience of traditional Balinese culture. but in each of these ten hotels, there is I believe despite all the inherent contradictions of cumbrance and privilege, the sincere attempt to provide even for the briefest of timeless the felling that this place is truly the island of the Gods, that these places is truly the island of the Gods, that these places are highly sophisticated architectures of welcomes. Offerings of refuge between mountains and sea.