Penguin Books Australia

A guide to 100 iconic American houses, from the ancient to the new.

A detailed look at the best of contemporary Japanese architecture.

Modern House Three is an overview of the most innovative houses built around the world in the most recent years, following the highly successful publication of Phaidon's Modern House (1993) and Modern House 2 (2000). This book presents 33 houses in 15 countries, by both distinguished architects and up-and-coming young practitioners, including David Adjaye (London), Tadao Ando (Japan), Shigeru...

A survey of the most innovative new houses built in Japan.

An in-depth account of an icon of 20th-century Modernist architecture.

The only residence ever to be built by the pioneering architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in America, Farnsworth House (1948-51) exemplifies the central tenet both of the 'international style', by inverting the conventions of traditional architecture, and of Mies' own design philosophy.

A survey of the world's most innovative and inspiring modern residential architecture.

A visual feast of 500 iconic houses and traditional dwellings from all over the world, The House Book presents a vibrant and fresh view of architects and designers responsible for some of the most diverse international houses of all time. From Hadrian's Villa to Palladio's Villa Rotunda and Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, through to the contemporary houses of Richard Rogers and Frank Gehry, it features...

A 'design classic' is an industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value. It serves as a standard of its kind and, despite the year in which it was designed, is still up to date. The collection presented in these three volumes has been put together by a group of experts following the above criteria.

The objects are presented chronologically, beginning with an elegant pair of Chinese...

A detailed survey of the Sydney Opera House, illustrated with photographs and drawings.

Sydney Opera House (1957-73) is one of the best-known buildings of the late twentieth century and perhaps Australia's most potent landmark, its white shell-like forms inextricably linked with the image of Sydney itself. A momentous breakthrough for the architecture of its time, Jørn Utzon's building remains...

An exploration of the style that dominated 1950s architecture and design.

This book is the first to explore fully the so-called 'contemporary' style that dominated architecture and design from the late 1940s to the end of the 1950s. It was an era of optimism and confidence, where new ideas in architecture and design flourished alongside the emergent consumer culture.

'A thrilling and passionately indignant trawl through vanity's most polluted depths'  
THE TIMES

Following up on her successful book 20 Houses by 20 Architects, critic and historian Mercedes Daguerre explores Latin America's modernist tradition through the one-family houses of the region's best and brightest contemporary architects. The book covers nineteen structures built in Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, and Argentina.

Twenty houses designed by the most celebrated architects of the moment.