Domestic blissInnovative, intimate architecture from China to ChileDesigning 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 personalites becomes priority.
The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and pratical requirements of home into a workable, constructed reality.
This publication rounds up 100 of the world s most interesting and pioneering homes from the past decade, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson, Richard Meier, Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog and de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, UNStudio, 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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