Twenty innovative houses designed by leading architects including rem koolhaas, tadao ando and glenn murcutt. - international spread of projects across australia, the americas and europe. - generous landscape format and extensive photography. - includes an essay reviewing how architecture has responded to the changing nature of domestic life. - great value for money and essential for all architecture and design students as well as the general reader. mercedes daguerre is an italy-based critic and historian. she graduated in architecture from the university institute of architecture in venice in 1985 and has taught and carried out research in various universities in europe and the americas. she is the author of many books on contemporary architecture including latin american houses (pall mall press, 2012) and new villas in switzerland (2011).