num_pages: 680
description: Designing 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 personalities becomes priority. The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of home into a workable constructed reality.This publication rounds up 100 of the world's most interesting and pioneering homes designed in the past two decades featuring a host of talents both new and established including John Pawson Shigeru Ban Tadao Ando Zaha Hadid Herzog &amp; de Meuron Daniel Libeskind Alvaro Siza 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.
language: English
title: 100 Contemporary Houses
publisher: TASCHEN