Stories Contemporary Houses Text by Marilena Sobacchi Add to bookmarks This book gathers the most eclectic houses on the planet, staggeringly beautiful, channelling powerfull storytelling but, most of all, designed by extraordinary architects. Designing a private home is a delicate and complicated affair, even for the most experienced architect. The challenges are not just creative, nor are they merely structural. When working to much more modest scales than public projects, with less complex technical equipment than industrial sites, there are so many settings, colours, lights and objects to balance and characters, dialogues and emotions to reflect and narrate that architects perforce have to become half filmmaker, half therapist. Only then can they edit and organise the space in such a way as to narrate an engaging story. The story of its future inhabitants. This is something of which Philip Jodidio is all too aware. His book, Contemporary Houses, published by Taschen, reflects on how the most arduous task facing designers is to translate all the emotional associations and practical requirements into something real. The book contains 100 of the most interesting and avantgarde houses built around the world over the past decade by both established and emerging talents, including John Pawson, Richard Meier, Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog and de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Álvaro Siza, UNStudio and Peter Zumthor. All spaces that have provided infinite opportunities for experimenting with new method and materials for domestic living, allowing their architects to breathe life into unique and exceptional spaces – and experiences. Contemporary Houses Philip Jodidio Ed. Taschen 19 January 2021 Share See AlsoOther Articles Markets Bonus Tende da Sole 2025: how to apply Che cos’è e cosa prevede il bonus, come richiederlo e soprattutto, si può chiedere il bonus anche senza ristrutturazione? Cristina Kiran Piotti Sustainability The Piazze Aperte scheme is really changing the face of Milan Since 2018, the two local governments helmed by Mayor Giuseppe Sala have closed more than fifty of the city’s streets and roads to traffic – but not to people. And this is just the beginning Fabrizio Fasanella Salone Selection Danish stratigraphy: material practices and ethical visions at 3daysofdesign 2025 Not a trade fair, but a cultural ecology - an interweaving of voices, materials, gestures and narratives that speak of sustainability, authenticity, conscious beauty Marilena Sobacchi
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