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Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses around the World

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Discover the world’s finest crop of new homes. This dependable global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-comers like Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Organized by architect and brimming with crisp photography and plans, the result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house.
Hardcover9.7 x 14.6 in.7.99 lb456 pages

“Jaw-dropping contemporary homes from across the globe.”

architecturaldigest.com

“A compelling survey of the best in contemporary living, on a global scale.”

The Globe and Mail

“This illustrated volume celebrates the home of the future... you would move into any of these houses right now.”

Süddeutsche Zeitung
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Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses around the World

Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses around the World

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There’s No Place Like Home

Step into the world’s most beautiful private abodes

Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world’s finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-coming names like Aires Mateus, Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa.

Here, there are homes in Australia and New Zealand, from China and Vietnam, in the United States and Mexico, and on to less expected places like Ecuador and Costa Rica. The result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house and a revelation that homes across the globe may have more in common than expected.

Among guava trees and abandoned forts in Western India is a sanctuary designed for and by Kamal Malik of Malik Architecture. The House of Three Streams is a sprawling spectacle with high ceilings, verandas, and pavilions, perched atop a ridge overlooking two ravines. A medley of steel, glass, wood, and stone, the house weaves along the contour of the landscape, almost as an extension of the forest.

Encina House by Aranguren & Gallegos, an elegant, sloping structure reminiscent of a gazebo, similarly inhabits its surrounding vista. Ensconced in a pine forest north of Madrid, the lower level is embedded in rock and connected to the upper by a natural stone wall.

Shinichi Ogawa’s Seaside House is an immaculate two-story minimalist marvel in Kanagawa that overlooks the Pacific. Its living area spills onto a cantilevered terrace and infinity pool, almost dissolving into the ocean as one seamless entity.

In Vietnam, Shunri Nishizawa’s House in Chau Doc exudes tropical sophistication with exposed timber beams, woven bamboo, plants, concrete panels, and inner balconies and terraces. Its corrugated iron panels act as moveable walls and shutters, ushering in views of surrounding rice fields.

These homes—along with more than 50 others—are each remarkably distinct in design. They all, however, toe the line between inside and outside, each one symbiotic with its surroundings.
The author

Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His TASCHEN books include the Architecture Now! series and monographs on numerous major architects, including Norman Foster, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid.

Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses around the World
Hardcover24.6 x 37.2 cm3.62 kg456 pages

ISBN 978-3-8365-7117-3

Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German)
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Sorprendente

MaY,November 6, 2021
Ottima selezione, davvero molto curata e ispirata.

How will we live together?

Gerd,November 3, 2021
Here is the answer!

Tolles Format

Stephan,October 28, 2021
Tolles großformatiges Buch über großartige Architekturen. Relativ oberflächlich.

Great looking book, perfect for inspiration

Gergely,October 27, 2021
Book looks great, and full with well photographed content, great as a gift for any architect.

muy entretenido

Victoria,October 27, 2021
muy entretenido, se aprende bastante