New Country Houses

"The thirty houses featured in this illustrated volume range from a Portuguese vacation home whose granite facade blends seamlessly into an ancient system of agricultural terraces to a Japanese family residence whose translucent walls glow like a paper lantern in the nighttime, but they all embody the same contemporary architectural trend: a radical shift in thinking about the residential architecture of the countryside. An increasing exodus from the stresses of urban living has brought a positive and powerful design consciousness out of the cities into new and challenging environments. New Country Houses explores how architects today seek to reinvent the country house and develop a new rural architecture for the 21st century, rather than simply remodeling or recreating the methods and manners of the past."--BOOK JACKET.Bradbury, Dominic is the author of 'New Country Houses', published 2005 under ISBN 9780789208514 and ISBN 0789208512.