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What happens when an architect designs a home for themselves? Without a client, without a deadline, and without compromise? A home where they can most purely express their ideas, test their convictions, and live among them?
In How Architects Live, author Marc Blazer (CEO of high-design rental company Boutique) offers us more than a dozen unique answers to this question as he takes us a journey inside the personal homes of some of world's most accomplished contemporary architects, from Diego Villasenõr's sanctuary in Mexico to Sigurd Larsen island hideaway in Kythnos, Greece.
By looking closely at these homes, we can learn not only about architecture, but about the life inside those four walls. How do these spaces reflect the values of the people who created them? How do they shape family life, offer sanctuary, or frame moments of joy and connection? And what do they reveal about how we, too, might live better when our environments are designed with care and intention?
Marc Blazer is the CEO of Boutique, which with nearly two thousand homes is the preferred vacation home brand for the world's most sophisticated travelers. He is also co-founder of luxury travel arranger PRIOR, and before that he was the co-owner and chairman of the world-renowned restaurant noma, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Earlier in his career, Blazer was partner and global head of investment banking at Cantor Fitzgerald. Foreword
Introduction
1 Sanctuary
A Home Among the Boulders Jorge Gracia Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico
A Tent in the Forest Josh Brevoort and Lisa Chun La Conner, Washington, USA
A Glass Refuge in the Mountains Martin Gruber South Tyrol, Italy
A Cycladic Idyll Sigurd Larsen Kythnos, Greece
A Seventeenth-Century Puglian Palazzetto Andrew Trotter Soleto, Puglia, Italy
A Modernist Monolith in the Forest Franck Martinez Labastide-Marnhac, Occitanie, France
2 Gathering
An Open-Air Haven Moshe Safdie Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
A Spanish Rationalist Retreat Robert Terradas i Via Castellterçol, Catalonia, Spain
A Lava Stone Sanctuary Diego Villaseñor Amatlán de Quetzalcóatl, Morelos, Mexico
An Ode to Artisans in the Tropics Maximilian Jencquel Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
An Art Nouveau Rescue Vânia Brito Fernandes Faro, Algarve, Portugal
3 Immersion
A Wilderness Retreat Anson Fogel Boulder, Utah
An Aerie in the Clouds Dagmar Štěpánová Uvita, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
A Modernist Icon, Revived Christian Stayner Palm Desert, California
A Mountain House in the City Anna Noguera Barcelona, Spain
Featured Architects
Acknowledgments
Index
In How Architects Live, author Marc Blazer (CEO of high-design rental company Boutique) offers us more than a dozen unique answers to this question as he takes us a journey inside the personal homes of some of world's most accomplished contemporary architects, from Diego Villasenõr's sanctuary in Mexico to Sigurd Larsen island hideaway in Kythnos, Greece.
By looking closely at these homes, we can learn not only about architecture, but about the life inside those four walls. How do these spaces reflect the values of the people who created them? How do they shape family life, offer sanctuary, or frame moments of joy and connection? And what do they reveal about how we, too, might live better when our environments are designed with care and intention?
Marc Blazer is the CEO of Boutique, which with nearly two thousand homes is the preferred vacation home brand for the world's most sophisticated travelers. He is also co-founder of luxury travel arranger PRIOR, and before that he was the co-owner and chairman of the world-renowned restaurant noma, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Earlier in his career, Blazer was partner and global head of investment banking at Cantor Fitzgerald. Foreword
Introduction
1 Sanctuary
A Home Among the Boulders Jorge Gracia Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico
A Tent in the Forest Josh Brevoort and Lisa Chun La Conner, Washington, USA
A Glass Refuge in the Mountains Martin Gruber South Tyrol, Italy
A Cycladic Idyll Sigurd Larsen Kythnos, Greece
A Seventeenth-Century Puglian Palazzetto Andrew Trotter Soleto, Puglia, Italy
A Modernist Monolith in the Forest Franck Martinez Labastide-Marnhac, Occitanie, France
2 Gathering
An Open-Air Haven Moshe Safdie Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
A Spanish Rationalist Retreat Robert Terradas i Via Castellterçol, Catalonia, Spain
A Lava Stone Sanctuary Diego Villaseñor Amatlán de Quetzalcóatl, Morelos, Mexico
An Ode to Artisans in the Tropics Maximilian Jencquel Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
An Art Nouveau Rescue Vânia Brito Fernandes Faro, Algarve, Portugal
3 Immersion
A Wilderness Retreat Anson Fogel Boulder, Utah
An Aerie in the Clouds Dagmar Štěpánová Uvita, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
A Modernist Icon, Revived Christian Stayner Palm Desert, California
A Mountain House in the City Anna Noguera Barcelona, Spain
Featured Architects
Acknowledgments
Index