The content is divided into two, the first half of the book tells about the history of publications on tropicality, a survey and critique of the Western gaze on concepts of the east, including its dwelling the the idealization of it. The treatment of a timeline is inevitable, maintained informative and simple. The second half showcases the works of contemporary Indonesian architecure, how they resist and reinterpret the West's constructs of tropical architecture. As such the modern and dynamic layout compliments the journalistic style of the photography, simple, honest, functional.