Leading Residential Architects (The Perfect Home) [Hardcover]

Pamela Lerner Jaccarino (Editor), Beth Dunlop (Foreword)

Book Description

Series: The Perfect Home | Publication Date: January 26, 2006

Successful residential architects design and create homes that express the needs and vision of their clients. They create exceptional shelters that convey not only a sense of warmth and protection but also a sense of self.

Leading Residential Architects showcases an incredible portfolio of some of the country's most respected and award-winning residential architects and their home designs. From American Shingle style to Mediterranean Revival, these homes articulate both style and substance.

Meet the architects behind the residences and learn what inspires them. See how they go through the creative process of planning and designing homes that impress and enlighten.

Containing over three hundred stunning color photographs, Leading Residential Architects captures the essence of what it means to have a home that is memorable, satisfying and enduring. For those who are planning to build their dream home or for those who simply love good home design and architecture, Leading Residential Architects is a robust source book that you will savor and enjoy, no matter where you live.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: Sandow Media (January 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976471310
• ISBN-13: 978-0976471318
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 11.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,635,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Idea Book of the Best in New Design, November 9, 2006

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This review is from: Leading Residential Architects (The Perfect Home) (Hardcover)

A home is, of course, foremost a place to sleep, to eat, and to be you and your family's private place away from the rest of the world. But all this could be accomplished by a warehouse type structure or a few rooms in one of the monolithic vertical warehouses called public housing.

For most of us, a home is far more than that. It's a work of art that shows the rest of the world a bit about us. It may be southern colonial, or western log cabin. It can be ultra-modern, or something that goes back to our foreign roots in Europe, Asia or where ever.

This beautifully illustrated book shows the best of the best in home design in the last few years by a carefully made selection of the best of the best design firms. The homes shown in the pictues do not concentrate on any particular style, indeed some different homes from the same firm show wide variation.

Don't expect to find any little 1,000 square foot homes here, these homes represent the best of today's design, and money could not have been a major criteria in the project.