The Architect · Mali · Bangkok
Jim Thompson House
I argue this is the most intelligently composed house in Bangkok. Thompson reversed the floor plan of one building and opened a wall to the canal.
Six traditional Thai teak houses assembled and adapted by an American silk trader in the 1960s. The spatial logic of Thai domestic architecture distilled into a single compound.
— Mali, The Architect
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