Ten years ago it was reasonable to apply the label high-to the work of Michael Hopkins. Today, however, with such as the Glyndebourne Opera House and the Parliamentary Building, Hopkins is perceived as a far complex figure, perhaps even that most paradoxi

Featuring more than 100 of the most significant and influential houses of the 20th century, this book includes classic works by such seminal architects as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto and Tadao Ando.