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The Iconic House

Architectural Masterworks Since 1900
By Dominic Bradbury
Series: Iconic House Series
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The Iconic House presents over 100 groundbreaking houses built since 1900, showcasing diverse styles from Arts and Crafts to High-Tech. With a focus on site sensitivity, local materials, and client needs, each home offers a unique architectural approach. The book includes detailed texts, vivid illustrations, photographs, floor plans, and drawings, supported by a bibliography and gazetteer for further exploration.
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Ideal for students, professionals, design lovers, and anyone inspired by architecture and the dream of building a home.

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Presents over 100 of the world's most significant residential buildings, now published in a compact format to create a handy resource for all lovers and enthusiasts of house design.

A handy resource for all lovers and enthusiasts of house design, featuring over 100 of the world's most significant residential buildings

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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 a careful understanding of clients' needs. Each house possesses 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. Additionally, 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.

Series: Iconic House Series

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Wallpaper* calls it 'a pretty much definitive guide to the houses that have come to define “modern architecture”.' House & Garden describes it as 'the ultimate handbook for those wanting to delve into the evolution of 20th-century architecture.'

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500293942

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 August 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Contributors:

  • Photographs by Richard Powers
  • Photographs by Richard Powers

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 208.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 1600g

Pages: 376

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Arts & Culture Dominic Bradbury Non-Fiction Series: Iconic House Series

About the Author

Richard Powers specializes in interiors, architecture and the built environment. His books include The Iconic House, Beyond Bawa and New Natural Home, all published by Thames & Hudson. Dominic Bradbury is a writer and journalist specialising in architecture, interiors and design. He writes for many magazines and newspapers in the UK and internationally, including The Times, The Guardian and House & Garden. His many books include Mid-Century Modern Design, The Iconic American House, The Iconic House and New Nordic Houses, all published by Thames & Hudson. He lives in Norfolk with his wife and children.

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