Architecture Now! Houses, Vol. 1

Houses Of Today, Built For Tomorrow New houses of elegance and distinction from around the world Beyond the fundamental notion of shelter, what defines a house? What are its elements and limitations? This broad-ranging selection of extraordinary dwellings shows the concept to be infinitely malleable: one house seems to hover above the ground, another is embedded in it; some have stark minimal lines, others have tropical gardens; some are palatial, others monastic. From postmodern castles to hi-tech cabins, here is a connoisseur's choice of the world's most remarkable new houses, from deepest Patagonia to the Sydney suburbs, via the USA, Europe, Scandinavia and Asia. Featured architects/firms/artists include: 3LHD Architects, �balos & Herreros, Ricardo Bak Gordon, Shigeru Ban, Blank Studio, Gianni Botsford, Nancy Copley, Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos, Durbach Block, Eastern Design Office, Fuhrimann & H�chler, Terunobu Fujimori, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Kotaro Ide, Carlos Jim�nez, Jouin Manku, Kamayachi + Harigai, Mathias Klotz, Kengo Kuma, Leven Betts Studio, MOS, Mount Fuji Architects Studio, Plasma Studio, Antoine Predock, Laurent Savioz, Shim + Sutcliffe, �lvaro Siza Vieira, Philippe Stuebi, Zhang Lei, Ren� van Zuuk and many others About the author: Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN's Architecture Now! series, Building a New Millennium, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and �lvaro Siza. Flexicover with flaps, 19.6 x 24.9 cm (7.7 x 9.8 in.), 416 pages, Multilingual Edition: English, French, German