The Architect's Home

by Gennaro Postiglione (Editor), Francesca Acerboni (Editor), Andrea Canziani (Editor)

The greatest challenge in designing homes is negotiating the delicate balance between aesthetics and the personal desires of the occupants. While it’s important for the structure to reflect the vision and style of the architect, the client must ultimately feel at home beneath the roof. It is particularly interesting, therefore, to examine the homes that architects create for themselves.If houses reflect their owners’ personalities, then architects’ own homes are like autobiographies. Location, layout, style, lighting, artwork, furnishings—every detail adds color to the story. Each of these dwellings, presented A–Z by architect, speaks more about its designer than any other building possibly could.

Genres: Design, Architecture

480 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2013

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

In no mean feat of research, this book is meticulous in its description of each house and the corresponding architect. I gained a great deal of knowledge about both and thoroughly enjoyed the detail with which the design, history, materiality, and personality is brought out in each segment. Very enjoyable.