Twenty Houses By Twenty Architects

by Daguerre, Mercedes

• ISBN13: 9781904313182
• ISBN10: 1904313183
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

The 20 houses in this book represent a cross-section of the most innovativeesidential design completed worldwide since the 1990s by some of the mostalked-about architects working today. Included are celebrated architectsuch as Rem Koolhaas, Steven Holl, and Richard Meier, as well as emergingalents such as fABRica de Arquitectura in Mexico and Graham Phillips inngland. Houses are located in widely diverse areas - from the heart ofanhattan to the seaside in Greece, and from the Spanish countryside to theuburbs of London. Beginning where Modernism left off, these architects aresing the private house as a laboratory to explore new issues in domesticiving.;The book begins with an introduction that discusses the profoundhanges that are now taking place in the institution of the family, in itsakeup, in the rhythms of its daily life and in the forms of its leisure andork. Each house is showcased on 12 pages that open with a brief projectescription, biographical profile of the architect, and project data. Theollowing spreads present plans, elevations, and sections, and full-colour