wereldomvattend overzicht van 500 huizen, waar mogelijk alfabetisch geordend op architect, maar oververtegenwoordigd zijn UK & USA.
Voor Nederland: het Haagse Mauritshuis van Jacob van Campen, Huis Schröder in Utrecht van Gerrit Rietveld & Truus Schröder, Huis Sonneveld, dependance van Architectuurmuseum Rotterdam van Brinkman & Van der Vlugt. Bevat ook afb. van hutten, als van Maasai, Zulu's. Prettig foto-overzicht, met goed beknopt commentaar. Bevat verklarende woordenlijst. ( )

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NYTimes Review - see URL below. (I feel quite ignorant to have not spotted any 'shockingly inaccurate' entries!)
THE HOUSE BOOK. (Phaidon, $45.) The latest installment in Phaidon's successful 'A to Z'series, this entertaining alphabetical compendium illustrates a single residence on each page, with one large color photograph and a small block of text. Written by a team of 35 contributors, those unsigned glosses run the gamut from shockingly inaccurate to gems of concision. Equally wide-ranging is the global roll call of domestic shelter, from the haus tambaran, or ceremonial house, of the Abelam people of New Guinea to the thatch-domed indlu of the Zulus of Natal. The high-style Western canon is fully represented also, from the Palace of Knossos on Crete (c. 1600 B.C.) to the House Near Bordeaux, by Rem Koolhaas of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (1998).

Among the serendipitous pleasures of this eye-filling album are the random juxtapositions that occasionally pair designs with surprising affinities on facing pages, prompting memories of compare-and-contrast final-exam questions. The likenesses can be purely superficial, like the domed Breakfast Room of Sir John Soane's house in London (1812-13) vis-à-vis the retractable glass roof of Paolo Soleri's Dome House in Cave Creek, Ariz. (1949). But in other instances there's a new shock of recognition, as in the flat but intricately linear facades of a reed mudhif, or guest house, of the Madan (Marsh Arabs) of Mesopotamia and Benedetto da Maiano's masonry Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (1498-c. 1536). The striking similarities between the rondavel thatched huts of the Hutu people of Rwanda and the igloos of the Inuit in Greenland are made clearer across the spread. And the astonishing emergence of democracy during the 18th century is neatly signified by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt's pompous Upper Belvedere Palace in Vienna (1721-22) confronting James Hoban's modest White House in Washington (1792-1801). http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E7D7153AF931A35751C1A9679C8B6...