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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 2:20 PM Here's a handy guide for future styles :wink: : Of course I concur with Boris that all kinds of American Tiki temples would be a fascinating subject too. The aforementioned Waikikian hyperbolic paraboloid for sure, and how about the crazy Kon Tiki Hotel lobby building in Phoenix? Ethnographic museums often have South Sea house models that they commissioned from native builders, some in a large scale, like this man-sized meeting house from Palau in the Hamburg Museum: This model shows the construction of a Sepik River tribal meeting house, with the scaffolding still attached: Sorry, once you get me started on A-frame architecture.... :)

Here's a handy guide for future styles :wink: :

Of course I concur with Boris that all kinds of American Tiki temples would be a fascinating subject too.
The aforementioned Waikikian hyperbolic paraboloid for sure, and how about the crazy Kon Tiki Hotel lobby building in Phoenix?

Ethnographic museums often have South Sea house models that they commissioned from native builders, some in a large scale, like this man-sized meeting house from Palau in the Hamburg Museum:

This model shows the construction of a Sepik River tribal meeting house, with the scaffolding still attached:

Sorry, once you get me started on A-frame architecture.... :)

Post #570568 by bigbrotiki on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 2:20 PM