Modern House

London and New York: Phaidon Press, 1999. 240 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: The house as object in the landscape; the house as construction; the site-responsive house; the organic house; urban compromise. Featured projects include: Luigi Snozzi, Casa Bemasconi; Antonio Cainpo Baeza, house in Spain; Pawson Silvestrin, Neuendorf House; Richard Meier, Ackerberg House, Malibu; Antoine Predock, Zuber House; Tadao Ando, Kidosaki House; OMA, Villa, Paris; Dirk Alten, The Eagle; Stephane Beel, Bruges House; Shinichi Ogawa, house for a Cubist; Daryl Jackson, Beach House, Bermagui; Scogin Elam & Bray, Chniar House; Sergio Puente/Ada Dewes, Weekend House; Barry Marshall, Beach House; Nonda Katsalides, Beach House; Xaveer de Geyter, House in Antwerp; Mario Botta, Casa Biarida, Losone; Frank Gehry, Winton House, Mimesota; Bart Prince, Price House; Joshua Schweitzer, The Monument; Enric Miralles, House in Barcelona; Masaharu Takasaki, Zero Cosmology House; Ushida Findlay Truss, Beam House; Mecanoo, House for Houben de Graaf; Hajime Yatsuka, House in Komae; David Wild, House in Camden; Glenn Murcutt, Done House; Graham Morrison, Allies & Morrison, Blackheath House.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.