Art Invention House

About this book

Art/Invention/House is an authoritative and handsomely illustrated presentation of forty new houses-many published here for the first time-exploring the creativity of top architects around the world ranging from firms that specialize in residential work to those for whom a house is a rare indulgence. The houses shown here are understated or audacious but never conventional. Each of these cutting-edge projects whether built in town or country represents a world apart from its surroundings. Some have only trees for neighbors; others are shoehorned into tight urban sites perch on precipitous slopes or cling like limpets to the coastline. But every house is one of a kind the product of dialogue between demanding clients and creative designers around the globe.The book includes the world-renowned firms of Archi-Tectonics/Winka Dubbeldam Will Bruder Wallace Cunningham Gwathmey Siegel Steven Holl Rick Joy Thomas Phifer and Richard Meier in the US; TEN Arquitectos Alberto Kalach and Michel Rojkind in Mexico; Marcos Acayaba and Marcio Kogan in Brazil; Seth Stein in the UK; Alberto Campo Baeza in Spain; Herzog & de Meuron in Switzerland; Georg Driendl and Hugo Dworzak in Austria; Jyrki Tasa in Finland; Alvaro Siza in Portugal; Tadao Ando Shigeru Ban Hitoshi Abe and Kengo Kuma in Japan; and Glenn Murcutt and Harry Seidler in Australia.