Contemporary Houses: 100 Homes Around the World

Meet 100 of the most beautiful and groundbreaking homes of the past 20 years. Featuring architects such as Daniel Libeskind, Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid, this is a global overview of the nuances, challenges and possibilities of realizing all the emotional and practical requirements of "home."

Designing private homes has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical layout less complex than on an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements and vision of particular personalities take precedence. The delicate task is to translate all the emotional associations and practical requirements of "home" into a workable, constructed reality.

This publication surveys 100 of the world's most interesting and groundbreaking houses designed over the past two decades, featuring a host of new and established talents, including John Pawson, Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating daily routines of eating, sleeping and shelter as well as providing space for personal experiences and relationships, this is architecture at its most elemental and intimate.

Specifications
Title: Contemporary Houses: 100 Homes Around the World
Author: Philip Jodidio
Publisher: TASCHEN
Size: 348 x 262 x 45 mm
Size: 592 pages
Weight: 3924 grams
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783836583954

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