Every city site is a puzzle. How does a new house into the dizzying jigsaw of surrounding buildings? Urban Houses answers that question with almost 300 full-color photographs and full information on innovative city homes. Narrow sites, challenging locations, technical questions--these houses confront the most difficult urban problems. Special attention is given to facades, the public face of a private home, and how each project was joined to the urban fabric of its area.

Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects

Vertical house

Tezuka Architects / mias

Roof House

Bottega + Ehrhardt Architekten

House U

Querkraft

SPS one-family detached house

Traut Architekten

Single Family House

Driendl Architects

Solar Deck

Jahn Associates Architects

Grant House

Christoph Mayrhofer

Single Family House Machly/Schwarz

Kohki Hiranuma / Hs Workshop - Asia

Time & Space House

Gracia Studio

House GA

Jaume Bach

Reichardt Architekten BDA

Home P

Hiroshi Nakao

House with Studio for a Flower Artist

Ivan Bercedo & Jorge Mestre

Duffy House

GAD architecture

A House with Three Eras

Caries Gelpi Arroyo

Casa Cloe

Jakob + MacFarlane

Maison T

Koichiro Ishiguro

White Woods

Kunihide Oshinomi, Takeshi Semba

Timber Frame House with a Curtain Wail

Mathias Klotz

Casa Grau

Ottorino Bersilli & Cecilia Cassina

Ristrutturazione in Manerbio

Waro Kishi + K. Associates

House in Karakuen II