The Iconic House - Architectural Masterworks Since 1900

The Iconic House features over 100 of the most important and influential houses designed and built since 1900. International in scope and wide-ranging in style, the houses share a remarkable sensitivity to site and context, appreciation of local materials and building traditions, and careful understanding of clients'' needs. Each, however, has a unique approach that makes it groundbreaking and radical for its time. Concise, informative texts and fresh, vibrant illustrations, including specially commissioned photographs, floor plans and drawings, offer detailed documentation, while a bibliography, gazetteer and list of houses by type provide further information. Whether Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau, Modernist or Minimalist, High-Tech or new vernacular, these unforgettable buildings from around the world will inspire and delight students and professionals, design aficionados and anyone who dreams of building a house of their own.

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Bradbury, Bradbury Dominic, Dominic Bradbury, Richard Powers
• Assisted by: Richard Powers (Photographs)
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780500293942
• ISBN: 978-0-500-29394-2
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 214 mm x 230 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, Residential buildings, domestic buildings, History of Architecture, Architecture: residential and domestic buildings, Country Houses;Interior Design