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Architects' Houses
What does an architect's dream house look like? Explore the homes of thirty of the world's most talented architects.
Inventive and imaginative homes in 17 different countries. Spacious or frugal, ambitious or modest, refined or rough-edged, daring or reductive, the inspiring buildings in Architects' Houses are unique in design concepts, details, and materials, and how they interact with their landscape.
A treasure trove of ideas for homeowners, practitioners, and interior designers. Architects' Houses is richly illustrated with photographs, sketches, and plans. Learn how established architects design their own homes' design.
Explore the creative process and influence of architects' houses over the past two hundred years. From Jefferson's Monticello to the creations of Charles and Ray Eames, Toyo Ito to Frank Gehry. This generously illustrated book brims with ideas and inspiration as these architects' houses show different answers to the how can a house enrich lives and its natural surroundings?
Inventive and imaginative homes in 17 different countries. Spacious or frugal, ambitious or modest, refined or rough-edged, daring or reductive, the inspiring buildings in Architects' Houses are unique in design concepts, details, and materials, and how they interact with their landscape.
A treasure trove of ideas for homeowners, practitioners, and interior designers. Architects' Houses is richly illustrated with photographs, sketches, and plans. Learn how established architects design their own homes' design.
Explore the creative process and influence of architects' houses over the past two hundred years. From Jefferson's Monticello to the creations of Charles and Ray Eames, Toyo Ito to Frank Gehry. This generously illustrated book brims with ideas and inspiration as these architects' houses show different answers to the how can a house enrich lives and its natural surroundings?
- GenresArchitecture
Hardcover
Published April 24, 2018
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September 11, 2018
Canadian architect Todd Saunders writes about purchasing a lot for his dream home in Norway. After buying a disused park, he discovered much of the property was bog. Undeterred, he dug out the plot and replaced it with rock, creating a home where much of house is propped on stilts above the ground. Peter Gluck lives in New York State's Catskill Moutains, where he placed his living room above a switchback staircase. Each room in British architect Norman Foster's home faces the Mediterranean.
Through photographs, sketches, diagrams and stories, prominent contemporary architects explain how and why they built their own homes. Architects Houses is both informative and entertaining, with easy-to-read text and beautiful pictures. There's a lot of concrete and a lot of unusual angles. The stories are great and it's easy to spend a lot of time with this book.
Recommended for those interested in houses, design and how people who spend a lot of time thinking about both choose to live.
Through photographs, sketches, diagrams and stories, prominent contemporary architects explain how and why they built their own homes. Architects Houses is both informative and entertaining, with easy-to-read text and beautiful pictures. There's a lot of concrete and a lot of unusual angles. The stories are great and it's easy to spend a lot of time with this book.
Recommended for those interested in houses, design and how people who spend a lot of time thinking about both choose to live.
March 18, 2026
Us mere mortals are very unlikely to ever live in buildings like these, but there's no reason why we shouldn't enjoy looking at these examples of ingenuity, often life-long contemplations of what and how their houses should look like, the wild creativity that is invested in these, as well as some in-depth mathematical and seasonal considerations.
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