Description: Limited edition 47/50 copies. Signed copy 1st ed. thus hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy oversize (6) + 1-351pp., tipped-in colour illusts. & b/w plates, text ills., map, Michael White, later named made Wijaya in a Hindu ceremony was a Sydney landscape architect who settled in Bali where he died in 2016. 'New Compiled Edition.' Limited to 50 copies, this being number 47. Photocopied pages (as issued) with 50 colour plates (mostly original photographs) tipped-in. Presentation copy signed by Made Wijaya. Very Scarce. A world-renowned tropical garden designer, he was one of the island's most flamboyant, controversial and larger-than-life characters, an artist, designer, photographer, videographer, landscape designer and gardener, historian, journalist, humourist, satirist, diarist, anthropologist and more.[1] In 1973 Made Wijaya (born Michael White) sailed to Bali on a break from Architectural studies, the ketch having difficulty landing in the high seas, Made impatiently jumped overboard to swim ashore.[2] His break became permanent as he immersed himself in Bali life, living with a Brahmin family, who informally adopted him, and visiting regularly with the Balinese royal families he learned much of the island's intricate rituals and history, "gaining an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of the island that rivalled that of many Balinese", speaking Balinese fluently. In 1975 he was officially renamed Made Wijaya by a priest in a temple ceremony.
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Language: Balinese
Book Title: Balinese Architecture
Author: Wijaya
Topic: Architecture
