A complete collection of pictorially-rich, regionally organized editions featuring 20 of the most magnificent homes in each of the worlds many and diverse provinces of urban and secluded life, New View is part anthropological, and part declarative. The third book in this historic series, New View: A Curated Visual Gallery 20 Magnificent Homesby Architects of California, enchants the reader with aesthetically stunning portraits of real California homes, the designs of celebrity architects and world-renowned talents. Mesmerizing photography is balanced with the design philosophies, perspectives, and transformational experiences the individual architects divulge in the engaging editorial interludes. "Residential architecture tells the story of where we are as a civilization, writes Chad Oppenheim, in his foreword to the Florida edition, New View: A Curated Visual Gallery 20 Magnificent Homes by Florida Architects. With elegant design and poignant prose, it tells the story of our civilization. Through steadfast curation, New View designates, elevates, and memorializes the very best, most authentic, and indeed diverse architects of the world, capsulized in grand volumes, representing each unique region this series explores. To paraphrase the great Frank Lloyd Wright, form and function are forever bound in spiritual union. And design is eternally emotive. Architecture creates space, and it gently persuades how humans relate to it. It structures society: it imagines togetherness, and separation. It deftly traverses and confounds the paradox of imitation, in art and in life. Residential architects create home. Through the openness of space, residents are enveloped by a warm embrace. Amidst the angularity of structure, a gentility and grace exudes. In a natural paradise, nestled between rugged terrain, and towering over a major metropolis, home is a conversational sanctuary. It never betrays its surrounds. It honors its environment, and yet it invites refuge from it. This book, and the series to which it belongs, acquaint the world with a complete library: a curated visual gallery of home.
