Taschen - Book - 100 Contemporary Houses

Step inside 100 of the most beautiful and innovative homes of the past twenty years. You'll gain a deeper appreciation for the unique talent of translating the smallest nuances of a personal vision and the necessities of daily life into a concrete, constructed reality.

Designing private houses requires the architect to take on challenges and find very specific arrangements . If the scale is more modest than that of public projects and the technical equipment is less complex than on an industrial site, the preferences, requirements and projections of individual personalities become priority . The most delicate thing is to transform all the sensitive associations and practical requirements of the "house" into concrete and built reality.

This publication brings together 100 of the most interesting and innovative houses of the last twenty years and features a host of new and established talents, including John Pawson , Richard Meier , Shigeru Ban , Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid , Herzog & de Meuron , Daniel Libeskind , Alvaro Siza and Peter Zumthor . Corresponding to daily rituals – eating, sleeping, sheltering – while providing a space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elemental and intimate.

Hardcover, 14 x 19.5 cm, 1.11 kg, 688 pages