Honolulu Oahu. Architectural Guide
Buildings in Hawaii’s Capital
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Beschreibung
When Hawaii became the 50th state of the USA in 1959, a period of intense construction and a growing tourism industry followed. Luckily, this coincided with the most creative phase of the mid-century modern masters, who designed buildings that took full advantage of the archipelago’s unique, consistently pleasant climate.
Tropical modernism is therefore one of the main focuses of this guide, which presents the architectural history of Honolulu – Hawaii’s capital city on the island of Oahu – through almost 150 buildings. The selection ranges from vernacular architecture and nineteenth-century churches right through to war memorials, iconic 1960s hotels, and recent exclusive and inclusive condominiums and apartments, concluding with evolved proposals addressing the climate and housing crisis.
Compiled by four leading experts and longtime Honolulu residents, this book is more than just a reliable travel companion. With extensive map material, a large number of archive images and color photos, in-depth essays, and extra YouTube viewing material, it also invites armchair travelers to dream of Hawaii.
Autor*in
Martin Despang
Climate and culture became the basis for Martin Despang’s co-coaching (SoA architecture and TIM hospitality) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, based on critical practice (with his family firm Despang Architekten in Germany) and practical critique (as a weekly video journalist with ThinkTech Hawaii). He was born and raised in moderately-tempered Hanover, Germany, where he first studied architecture, followed by the more extreme-tempered prairie of the USA at the University of Nebraska, which then invited him back to teach. After this he continued to the hot arid desert at the University of Arizona and finally to the tropics at the University of Hawaii.