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 & 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.