Retreat : The Modern House in Nature. This item is unavailable.Retreat : The Modern House in Nature

These rustic retreats--with comfortable and appealing modern interiors--will resonate with readers of Architectural Digest and Dwell, while the cutting-edge reputations of their architects will interest professionals and students.

A global look at rustic living in the twenty-first century, this book presents new and recent houses that demonstrate the inexhaustible potential of the modern house to enter into a dialogue with nature, either as an extraordinary object within the landscape or as an innovative approach to living off the grid.

Ron Broadhurst is the author of The Urban House: Townhouses, Apartments, Lofts, and Other Spaces for City Living, Houses: Modern Natural/Natural Modern, and Next Houses: Architecture for the Twenty-First Century and coauthor, with Suzanne Stephens, of Imagining Ground Zero: Official and Unofficial Proposals for the World Trade Center Site.