Radical Living: Homes at the Edge of Architecture

What happens when an architect sets out to design the extraordinary and challenges the established norms of architecture? This vividly illustrated book is a riot of clever, creative residences that push housing and living in new design directions.

Radical Living: Homes at the Edge of Architecture showcases a wide selection of experimental designs by visionary architects around the world. Shaking off limitations, challenging design conventions, and employing architectural ingenuity and modern technical aspiration, these houses have bold, striking, and thought-provoking designs that will serve as inspiration for years to come. Each is an inventive response to unique constraints and opportunities, resulting in distinctively attractive architecture underscored by original, exploratory ideas.

This publication is vividly illustrated with crisp and evocative full-color photography of the architecture, and playful, animated drawings of each house. Insight from the architects details their inspiration and the challenges encountered through the design and build processes. Whether it be a uniquely difficult location, the decision to use materials in innovative ways, or simply experimenting with a new architectural form, the houses featured from around the world present new ideas of what a residence could be.

For architects, designers, students, and design enthusiasts, Radical Living offers a collection of dwellings imagined and realized by some of the best architectural visionaries of our time.

Avi Friedman, PhD, is a Professor of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is also a practicing architect specializing in sustainable residential design and is known internationally for his housing innovation, in particular for The Grow Home and The Next Home, which were built in several countries. He has authored 16 books and is the recipient of many accolades, including the World Habitat Award, the Creative Achievement Award and the Life Time Achievement Award from Sustainable Buildings Canada. In the year 2000, he was selected by Wallpaper* magazine as one of ten people from around the world most likely to change the way we live in the new millennium.