Architects' Houses, a Phaidon book of 200 homes architects built themselves

Where an architect chooses to live tends to say more than any commission. That is the idea behind Architects' Houses, a new Phaidon book by Dominic Bradbury that gathers more than 200 homes architects made for themselves, from 1950 to the present, with both interiors and exteriors shown.

The famous names are here: Charles and Ray Eames's Case Study House #8 in Los Angeles, Hiroshi Hara's 1974 house in Tokyo, Albert Frey's Frey House II in Palm Springs, plus homes by Lina Bo Bardi, Richard Neutra, Frank Gehry and Peter Zumthor. Bradbury also went looking for less familiar houses with their own way of thinking, from Marcos Acayaba in Brazil to Kulapat Yantrasast in California. He told Wallpaper* that a sense of difference and individuality drove the selection, and that respect for landscape and environmental awareness kept coming up.

The surprises, he says, were the sculptural and experimental ones: Javier Senosiain's Casa Orgánica and Juan O'Gorman's Casa Cueva, which feel as much like artworks as homes, and Eduardo Longo's Casa Bola. Each entry carries a short note on the architect's ideas rather than their big public projects, which keeps things personal.

It costs £69.95 from Phaidon. A hefty one for anyone who likes to see how designers live when the client is themselves.

Our summary of a story from Wallpaper*, published 11 October 2026. Read the original

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