With an intrinsic ability to see the big picture, today’s master architects are creating inclusive, responsive residential designs that embrace building, site and interiors with subtlety and style. Their talent, ambition, attention to detail, and flair for fusing art and architecture combine to produce houses of unparalleled style and comfort.

This compendium of truly spectacular houses features the work of architecture’s brightest contemporary stars – including Lord Norman Foster, Allan Greenberg, Glenn Murcutt, Eric Owen Moss, Mario Botta, Helmut Jahn, Steven Ehrlich, and Ken Yeang.

The stunning photography is complemented by informative plans and project summaries containing unique insights into the personal design philosophies of these master architects. Project locations range from the USA to France, Italy to Dubai, the UK to Australia, and from Hong Kong to Spain.

Masterpiece is an up-to-the-minute collection of residential work from the world’s top contemporary practitioners, who consistently prove that architecture can always be re-imagined.

Featuring stunning residential designs from architecture’s best and brightest, Masterpiece offers a tantalizing glimpse inside some of the world’s most stylish houses, each with a distinctive ‘wow-factor’ – the hallmark of these icons of architecture.

GRAND DESIGNS AUSTRALIA (August 2012)

Masterpiece