The house rediscovers its crucial role in shaping and shifting new paradigms

摘要

What makes a truly memorable house? We all have seductive ideas about our dream home, but few people ever manage to make it a reality. Fetishised in lifestyle magazines and increasingly vacuous television makeover programmes, the trophy house is a source of apparently unquenchable public fascination. Yet in some ways the intensity of such engagement is understandable, as the house is so powerfully and intimately rooted in human experience. Everyone needs a home.