100 Contemporary Houses (Bibliotheca Universalis)

by Philip Jodidio

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

This publication rounds up 100 of the world's most interesting and pioneering homes designed in the past two decades, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson, Richard Meier, 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 offering the space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.

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Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!

  • ISBN10 3836557835
  • ISBN13 9783836557832
  • Publish Date 5 June 2021 (first published 26 April 2016)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 28 April 2022
  • Publish Country DE
  • Imprint Taschen GmbH
  • Edition Multilingual edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 688
  • Language English