Hardback book 14 x 19.5 cm 688 pages "100 Contemporary Houses" - Taschen

Step inside 100 of the most beautiful and innovative homes of the past twenty years. You will gain a deeper appreciation of the particular talent it takes to turn the subtlest nuances of a personal vision, along with the demands of everyday life, into concrete, built reality.

Intimate and innovative architecture from China to Chile

Designing private houses requires the architect to rise to specific challenges and devise highly bespoke solutions. While the scale is more modest than that of public projects and the technical equipment less complex than on an industrial site, the preferences, requirements and aspirations of singular personalities take priority. The most delicate task is transforming all the emotional associations and practical requirements of the "home" into concrete, built reality.

This publication brings together 100 of the most interesting and innovative houses of the past twenty years and showcases a host of talents, both emerging and established, such as John Pawson, Richard Meier, Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza and Peter Zumthor. Answering the rituals of daily life – eating, sleeping, taking shelter – while offering space to nurture personal experience and relationships: this is architecture at its most elemental and most intimate.