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Every architect dreams of a perfect client, and every client dreams of a perfect architect. Alas, these relationships don't always work out to everyones expectations. But when they dowhen there are shared ideas and the communication flowsthe results can be spectacular. The New Modern House features forty new buildings where the synergy between the right designer and the right client resulted in works that surpass everyone's expectations.

The book is divided into five thematic chaptersconditions, materials, environment, budget, and aestheticsand each contain eight case studies. These include Rafael Violy's Piano House in New York; Sean Godsell's Peninsula House in Australia; and Ahadu Abaineh's Tree House in Ethiopia, among others.

Beautifully produced, The New Modern House captures these noteworthy designs with a wealth of color photography, plans, and drawings, and makes an ideal book for anybody dreaming of the perfect house.

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• Foreword(p. 6)
• Introduction(p. 8)
• Conditions(p. 12)
• Barclay & Crousse: Casa Equis Canele, Peru(p. 16)
• Delugan Meissl: Ray 1 Vienna, Austria(p. 22)
• Woha Design: Hua Guan House Singapore(p. 26)
• Featherstone Associates: Voss Street House London, UK(p. 30)
• Ben Addy: Fin-Topped House East Asia/Non site-specific(p. 32)
• Architects Ink: Beach House Adelaide, Australia(p. 36)
• De Rijke Marsh Morgan: One Centaur Street London, UK(p. 38)
• Edge Design Institute: Suitcase House Nanguo Valley, Beijing, China(p. 42)
• Materials(p. 46)
• Sean Godsell Architects: Peninsula House Melbourne, Australia(p. 50)
• Hudson Architects: Belper House Belper, Derbyshire, UK(p. 56)
• Living Tomorrow/Un Studio: Living Tomorrow 3 Amsterdam, Netherlands(p. 58)
• Mark Hutker Architects & Associates: Skolos/Wedell Home Canton, Massachusetts, USA(p. 62)
• Masaki Endoh and Masahiro Ikeda: Natural Ellipse Tokyo, Japan(p. 64)
• Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects: Vertical House Los Angeles, USA(p. 68)
• Project Orange: Sinclairs Sheffield, UK(p. 70)
• Gerner Gerner Plus: Sued.See Burgenland, Austria(p. 72)
• Environment(p. 76)
• Ushida Findlay: Grafton New Hall Chester, Cheshire, UK(p. 80)
• Robert Adam Architects: Solar House Wakeham, Sussex, UK(p. 84)
• Ahadu Abaineh: Growing House Addis Ababa, Ethiopia(p. 88)
• S333: Bloembollenhof Vijfhuisen, Netherlands(p. 90)
• Eldridge Smerin: Iden Croft Staplehurst, Kent, UK(p. 94)
• Tim Pyne: m-house Non site-specific(p. 96)
• Blue Sky Architecture: Murphy House Gambier Island, Canada(p. 100)
• Cullum & Nightingale: New Eden House Bequia, Caribbean(p. 104)
• Budget(p. 108)
• Scda Architects: Heeren Shophouse Malacca, Malaysia(p. 112)
• Studio Aisslinger: Loftcube Non site-specific(p. 116)
• Theis & Khan: Steve's Retreat London, UK(p. 120)
• Simon Conder Associates: Rubber House Dungeness, Kent, UK(p. 122)
• Onl: Elemental Housing Chile(p. 124)
• Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects: Six Wood Lane London, UK(p. 128)
• Buckley Gray: Rural Retreat Dartmoor, South Devon, UK(p. 130)
• Kaufmann Kaufmann: SU-SI Non site-specific(p. 132)
• Aesthetics(p. 134)
• Chetwood Associates: Butterfly House Godalming, Surrey, UK(p. 138)
• Rafael Vinoly Architects: Piano House The Hamptons, New York, USA(p. 144)
• (EEA) Erick Van Egeraat Associated Architects: Avant-Garde Moscow, Russia(p. 148)
• Fat: Blue House London, UK(p. 150)
• Beige Design: Pixel House San Francisco, USA(p. 154)
• Hays Associates: Thistle Star Santa Fe, USA(p. 156)
• Alsop Architects: CiBoGa Groningen, Netherlands(p. 160)
• W Architecture: DoMa Gallery Baltimore County, Maryland, USA(p. 164)
• Architect and Photographer Details(p. 168)
• Bibliography(p. 171)
• Index(p. 172)
• Acknowledgments(p. 176)

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Publishers Weekly Review

Compiling photographs from 40 of the world?s most innovative houses, this coffee-table book attempts to ?open people?s minds... to the potential of residential architecture.? Divided into five rather vague categories?Conditions, Materials, Environment, Budget and Aesthetics?this volume presents homes that boldly challenge traditional conceptions of design. For example, the bizarre Natural Ellipse building in Tokyo, described as ?two apartments ?vacuum packed? in a gleaming white skin,? resembles an enormous egg, and one house in southeast England is economically made of rubber. These creations are nicely captured in numerous color photographs, but the introductions that accompany them are less successful. (?Ever since his decision to move out of the cave and get on the property ladder, man has sought out materials to build with,? reads the characteristically banal intro to the ?Materials? section). The book?s design also detracts from the architectural wonder of these homes: the photographs are rarely given the full page that they deserve and are instead crowded by descriptions and blueprint sketches. The projects themselves, though, are creative and often over-the-top, like the glass house in Kent that?s designed seamlessly within a plant nursery and the wonderfully innovative ?Elemental Housing? project, a colorful solution to low-cost housing in the slums of Chile. This volume will no doubt interest architecture aficionados, but it falls short of being a fascinating introduction to the wonders of new modern design. 300 color illustrations. (May) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Will Jones is a freelance architectural journalist who has written for many magazines. He was formerly Deputy Editor if World Architecture Magazine. He lives in London.