his monograph is an in-depth exploration of NHDKMP’s modern houses designed between 1970 and 2004. While at any time projects in the firm’s office might range from a school addition to a high-rise tower to an urban plan, they always include a single-family house. House design represents the historical and conceptual foundation of the firm. While NHDKMP has expanded its practice, house design has embedded itself in other design typologies. House construction is the testing ground for ideas in scale, use of materials, spatial manipulation, detail, and expression of forms, and these ideas inform the firm’s other work.

While NHDKMP’s houses suggest a consistent modernist sensibility, attention to the client, site, and construction result in a variety of solutions. Over the past several years, the firm has compiled a “logbook” of houses, loosely categorized according to design approach. This monograph is a more permanent version of that logbook. The selection of houses and some related projects are taken from almost four decades of the partnership’s designs.

Illuminated through beautiful color and black and white photography, this book represents a serious exploration of house design and the modern sensibility.

Book Details

• 160 pages, 7.75" x 9.5"
• $40.00, Hardcover
• ISBN 1-931536-44-9
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About the Author

Stanley Tigerman received both his architectural degrees from Yale University in 1960 and 1961. He has designed numerous buildings and installations throughout the United States, Bangladesh, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Spain, West Germany, Yugoslavia, and Puerto Rico, and given over 930 lectures throughout the world. He has been a visiting chaired professor at numerous universities, served on advisory committees at the Princeton, Yale, and Chicago Art Institute architecture schools, and was Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago for eight years. In association with Eva Maddox, he is Co-Founder and Director of ARCHEWORKS, a socially oriented design laboratory and school established in 1994.