Includes bibliographical references (p. 171) and index.

Contents: Introduction; Conditions (8) 12; Barklay & Crousse Casa Equis, Canete, Peru 16; Delugan-Meissl Ray 1, Vienna, Austria 22; Woha Architects Hua Guan House, Singapore 26; Featherstone Associates Voss Street House, London, UK 30; Ben Addy Fin-Topped house, non site specific/S Korea 32 Unbuilt; Architects Ink Beach House, Adelaide, Australia 36; de Rijke Marsh Morgan One Centaur Street, London, UK 38; Edge Design Suitcase House, Beijing, China 42; Materials (8) 46; Sean Godsell Peninsula House, Melbourne, Australia 50; Hudson Architects Belper House, Derbyshire, UK 56 To be built-under construction; Living Tomorrow/UN Studio Living Tomorrow 3, Amsterdam, NL 58; Mark Hutker & Associates Skolos/Wedell Residence, Mass., USA 62; Masaki Endoh and Masahiro Ikeda Natural Ellipse, Tokyo, Japan 64; Lorcan O'Herlihy Vertical House, Calif., USA 68; Project Orange Sinclair's, Sheffield, UK 70 To be built-under construction; Gerner Gerner Plus Sued.see, Burgenland, Austria 72; Environment (8) 76; Ushida Findlay Grafton New Hall, Cheshire, UK 80 Unbuilt; Robert Adam Architects Solar House, Sussex, UK 84; Ahadu Abaineh Growing House, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 88; S333 Bloembollenh of Housing, Vijfhuisen, Netherlands 90; Eldridge Smerin Iden Croft, Kent, UK 94 To be built-planning stage; Tim Pyne m-house, non site specific 96 To be built-prototype built; Blue Sky Architecture, Murphy House, Gambier Island, BC, Canada 100; Cullum & Nightingale New Eden House, Bequia, Grenadine Isands 104; Budget (8); SCDA Architects Heeren Shophouse, Malacca, Malaysia 112; Werner Aisslinger Loft Cube, non site specific 116; Theis & Khan Steve's retreat, London, UK 120 To be built-planning stage; Simon Conder Associates Black Rubber Beach House, Kent, UK 122; ONL Elemental Housing, Chile 124 To be built-concept stage; Mike Russum/BPR Six Wood Lane, London, UK 128 To be built-planning stage; Buckley Grey Rural Retreat, South Devon, UK 130 To be built-concept stage; Kaufmann Kaufmann SU-SI, non site specific 132; Aesthetics (8) 134; Chetwood Associates The Butterfly House, Surrey, UK 138; Rafael Vinoly Architects Piano House, The Hamptons, USA 144; Erick van Egeraat Architects Yakimanka, Moscow, Russia 148 To be built-under construction; Fat Blue House, London, UK 150; Beige Design Pixel House, San Fransisco, USA 154; Hays Associates Thistle Star, Santa Fe, N.Mex., USA 156; Alsop Architects CiBoGa, Groningen, Netherlands 160 To be built-construction to begin; W Architecture DoMa Barn, Maryland, USA 164; Glossary 170; Index 172; Acknowledgments 176

Five chapters: Conditions, Materials, Environment, Budget, and Aesthetics cover the defining themes behind 40 projects. Residences included are as diverse as Rafael Vinoly Architects' Piano House, USA; S333's Bloembollenhof Housing, The Netherlands; Ahadu Abaineh's Growing House, Ethiopia; and Werner Aisslinger's Loftcube, a mobile living capsule for urban rooftops. Unbuilt projects are also featured, including Ushida Findlay's award-winning Grafton New Hall, UK, and ONL's Elemental Housing, Chile. -- Dustjacket