The first book on our practice’s work, published by UK-based Artifice Press, is now available for purchase! We would like to thank Dean Hawkes – architect, writer, researcher and teacher – for writing a foreword for the book. Essence of Place: Making Local Architecture emphasises the importance of rooting projects to 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 our 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 context-based design as a whole. The book is divided into six sections to describe the motivating ideas and different aspects of her practice’s concern. Each section begins with an essay written by Eleena to set the background for built case study projects. The essays are titled Grounding Architecture, About Making, Bamboo, Typology and Environment, the Outdoor Room and Connective Possibilities.

The book is currently available to purchase at Suburbia Projects (Malaysia), Artifice Press (UK) and other leading bookstores.

You can also order a copy from us for RM185 with free delivery within Peninsula Malaysia. Email admin@ej-architect.com for details.