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Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Residential buildings, domestic buildings > General
In recent years, guest houses have become exceptionally popular and
attractive for people who live in the city but want to escape from
the hustle and bustle. This book contains 42 case studies of guest
houses. The book provides a professional analysis of the projects,
accompanied with pictures of the projects. This book offers a good
reference to anyone interested in guest houses, be it guest house
owners or architects.
Frequently elegant and uncluttered, these houses serve as models of
smart and often exquisite design with lots of ideas for homeowners
who don't necessarily live in a waterfront home, but who wish to
have something of that appeal and sensitivity in their own space. A
range of projects encompassing myriad geographic and cultural
inspirations show some of the world's most inviting residences,
built in stone and glass, in wood and steel and concrete. The
houses vary in size and style, though all within the realm of the
modern, from open plan homes that include terraces and rooms that
flow from indoors to out, to spaces flooded with light and views.
Each house is photographed comprehensively with detailed interior
and exterior pictures 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. With its beautiful modernist homes set beside the
golden sands of the gulf coast of Mexico or upon the romantic
islands of Greece, from Finland to South Africa to New Zealand,
Houses by the Shore is a paean to rooms with a view.
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