Contemporary Houses: 100 Homes Around the World

Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale is also more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial website, however the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The subtle task is to translate the entire 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 up to now 20 years, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson,Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating day by day routines of eating, sleeping, and shelter, in addition to offering the space for personal experience and relationships, that is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.