The ultimate escapist collection of environmentally sustainable houses, cabins, and retreats, this book circles the globe to find the best eco-architecture in the most stunning and remote locations.

‘The best gallimaufry of gossip and scandal I have read in years’ Lynn Barber, Sunday Times

The first in the new series Pocket Photo Books – attractive, immersive, compact photo guides – in which Harry Cory Wright explores one of the most beautiful libraries in the world.

From Paper Tube Emergency Shelters and his Nomadic Museum built with containers to the Swatch/Omega Campus and the Centre Pompidou-Metz, discover the altruistic practice of the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban, who is lauded for his “curiosity, commitment, endless innovation, infallible eye, and acute sensibility.”

Ein umfassender Blick auf die Essenz skandinavischen Designs, das Grundkonzepte wie Minimalismus und Komfort zelebriert.

Design ist ein Eckpfeiler der skandinavischen Kultur, die sich auf Minimalismus und ein komfortables, entspanntes Wohnen konzentriert. Sein zeitloser Stil findet sich weltweit in zahlreichen Projekten, von Möbeln bis hin zur Architektur, und kommt nie aus der Mode. Einfach und geradlinig überrascht er immer wieder, wenn Designer neue Wege finden, ihn einzusetzen.

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A major overview of the most innovative, ambitious and beautiful houses on the Indian subcontinent.

Explores specific categories of materials glass and ceramic, altered naturals, high-performance composites, digitally fabricated metals and polymer films applied to an extensive range of projects, from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision to the Ordos Art and City Museum in Mongolia.

These extraordinary homes accentuate the cosmopolitan designs of such architectural talents as Gurjit Matharoo from India, Mohamed Amine Siana from Morrocco, and Mariko Mori from Japan. Building private houses, which can sometimes be quite small, they demonstrate creativity and technological inventiveness, shaping the architecture of tomorrow.