True Life: Steven Harris Architects

True Life Steven Harris Architects

Princeton Architectural Press, New York

â&#x20AC;&#x153; I envision my home as the physical, spatial expression of my interior life. I want a home that looks like how it is inside my head.â&#x20AC;?

“ How I work is how I live,” he says. “How I live is who I am. My house is my definition: I want to see myself everywhere.”

1 Climb

Climb

19 Clean

Clean

41 Enter

Enter

43 Enter

Lounge

81 Cook

Cook

123 Sleep

125 Swim

Swim

127 Swim

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True Life: Steven Harris Architects

Published on May 16, 2011

PA Press

"Effortless" and "inevitable" are architect Steven Harris's two favorite words. With sensitivity to the surrounding landscape, Steven Harris Architects designs spaces that are custom-tailored to their clients' daily lives and experiences. His dining rooms are not aggrandizements of tradition, they are places to eat, to gather, or even work; his entry halls are not the primary places of arrival, but rather the final segments of a long trajectory that begins when the resident turns off the main road or exits the elevator. True Life, the firm's first monograph, showcases an exceptional range of residential work from the past twenty-five years. Organized by the activities that propel their designs--dine, lounge, study, play, sleep, and so on--it focuses on people rather than objects

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