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Brick-vaulted rooms in Mexico, a glass-fronted house in Oslo, and a concrete home in Chile show how differently architects approach designing for themselves. Architects’ Houses brings together 200 such residences, spanning the mid-century period to the present. Written by architecture and design journalist Dominic Bradbury and published by Phaidon, it follows the choices architects make when they also become their own clients.
The entries are arranged alphabetically by architect, pairing exterior and interior photographs with short texts. Among the houses are Fernanda Canales’s Casa Terreno, Charles and Ray Eames’s Case Study House No. 8, and Mauricio Pezo and Sofía von Ellrichshausen’s Casa Luna. Photographs move from the buildings and their surroundings into living rooms, courtyards, stairways, and book-lined interiors, giving readers plenty to examine at different scales.
A foreword by Dutch architect Francine Houben introduces the relationship between home and professional practice. An illustrated chronology at the back offers another way through the collection, placing the houses in sequence by date. Across 352 pages, this book of architects’ own homes provides a broad set of references for anyone interested in residential architecture—or gathering ideas for a home of their own.
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