Top 50 beautiful homes

The 50 remarkable masterpieces have been carefully selected to represent the trendof modern home design and designers' various ideas about environment in differentregions, cultures and settings.

The selected projects include apartments and villas with functional areas from theinterior to exterior spaces. Each project has proved a particular design style andthe diversity and practicability of design elements, and thus helps to explore localcultural characteristics in the current international similarity of the design patterns.The designing process is always restricted by both the building space and theclient's expectations, where designers' ideas are expressed through not only spacedivision, but also interface elements as well as various compositions of differentinterfaces. Therefore, how to find the right materials to convey the orderly emotionalexperience and finally achieve the symbolic effect based on the ample embodimentof the colour and texture, appears of great prominence.

"Beauty" in this book is merely a broad concept, while in practice there are so manystandards and definitions about the "beauty" in the housing design. Here, it refersto the classicism reflected in the "Quidnet Road" by Kathleen Hay Designs, or thepostmodernism in the "Apartment F" by SCHOLSSER+PARTNER or the Chinesetraditional cultural characteristics in the "Taiyuan Aparment" by MOHEN DESIGN, etc.We hope that this book will provide readers with an excellent visual feast, andmeanwhile, encourage them to think over the essence of each project and the lastingartistic charm behind it.