对建筑师来说，设计私人住宅有其特是特定个人的喜好、要求和愿景是优先要考虑的。这项微妙的任务是将 "家 "的所有情感联想和实际要求转化为可行的建筑现实。这本书籍汇集了过去20年里世界上最有趣和最具开创性的100个住宅设计，介绍了约翰•波森、坂茂、安藤忠雄、扎哈•哈迪德、Herzog & de Meuron建筑师事务所、丹尼尔•利伯斯金、阿尔瓦罗•西扎和彼得•祖姆索尔等众多新锐和知名人士。

Designing private residences has its own very special challenges and nuances for the architect. The scale may be more modest than public projects, the technical fittings less complex than an industrial site, but the preferences, requirements, and vision of particular personalities becomes priority. The delicate task is to translate all the emotive associations and practical requirements of "home" into a workable, constructed reality. This publication rounds up 100 of the world's most interesting and pioneering homes designed in the past two decades, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson,Shigeru Ban, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Daniel Libeskind, Alvaro Siza, and Peter Zumthor. Accommodating daily routines of eating, sleeping, and shelter, as well as offering the space for personal experience and relationships, this is architecture at its most elementary and its most intimate.