This title deals with exceptional contemporary houses from Chile to Croatiato China. Designing private homes offers architects more freedom thancorporate projects to express their ideas and try out new concepts.Conceiving living spaces is not without its own set of challenges, forwhich architects are forever looking for innovative solutions-rethinkingthe way we
inhabit our home and live our daily lives is all part of the jobwhen designing a house. Nowadays environmental concerns have become crucialin building sustainable structures, changing the playing field quiteprofoundly. This two-volume publication rounds up 100 of the world's mostinteresting and pioneering homes from the past decade, featuring a host oftalents both new and established, including John Pawson, Richard Meier,Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, and Zaha Hadid.