Houses by the Shore: At Home With the Water: River, Lake, Sea

Description

Featuring projects from around the world built in the past five years by some of the most inspired architects working in the modern idiom, this up-to-date take on the dream of a home on the water will inspire homeowners, interior design and architecture lovers alike. Demonstrating the extraordinarily diverse ways that today's leading architects and designers interact with, and highlight, water-facing houses across the globe, this book is a paean to rooms with a view. A range of projects encompassing myriad geographic and cultural inspirations show some of the world's most beautiful residences, while examining symbiotic interactions between nature and construction. Each house is documented comprehensively with detailed interior and exterior photography and plans, and placed into context through the lens of widely respected editor Oscar Riera Ojeda and descriptive texts written by design critic Byron Hawes, to give readers a privileged look at the best of shore-side residential architecture.

Byron Hawes is a New York and Toronto-based writer and designer. He is the founder and editor of the underground architecture and design magazine The Apres Garde, and a co-founder of I-V, a boutique firm that has done architecture projects including a recording studio and offices for OVOsound, Campari's Canadian HQ, and Spin Toronto. He serves as contributing editor of architecture and design at Hypebeast, and senior editor at Flofferz. Additionally, he has authored or co-authored the books Unbuilt: Conceptual Architecture, We are Wanderful: 25 Years of Design & Fashion in Limburg, Post Industrial Brutalism and the Daiquiri and Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture. Oscar Riera Ojeda is an editor and designer based in the United States, China, and Argentina. He has designed, edited, and published over 200 architecture, design, and photography books. His books have been published by prestigious publishing houses across the world. His work has received many international awards, in-depth reviews, and citations. He is currently the director of the eponymous boutique publishing architecture house: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers.

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