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Introduction

Modern residential architecture encompasses non-commercial properties and living spaces, which can vary from modern to nostalgic, urban to rural, eccentric to simple. This category includes single-family homes such as ranches, bungalows, mansions, and villas, as well as multi-family projects like duplexes, apartment buildings, condominiums, co-ops, and townhouses. Depending on the type of property, architects utilize surrounding landscape, natural light sources, and a variety of materials to create distinctive designs.

M+ Reference Library

M+ Exhibitions

M+ Collection: Highlights

2014.116

Rocco Design Architects (now Rocco Design Architects Associates), Rocco Yim 

Distorted Courtyard House, Commune by the Great Wall, Beijing 

2002

2020.338

Ban Shigeru, Shigeru Ban Architects 

Model, 'Paper Log House' (1995), Kobe, Japan 

2015

2015.520

Wang Dahong, Dahong Wang & Associates 

Model, Luo Residence on Songjiang Road (1955), Taipei, Taiwan 

1955, reproduced 2006

2015.519

Wang Dahong, Dahong Wang & Associates

Model, Official Residence of the Japanese Ambassador (1953), Taipei, Taiwan 

1953, reproduced 2006

2013.102

Studio Zhu-Pei 

Model, Cai Guo-Qiang Courtyard House Renovation (2006–2007), Beijing, China 

2013

2018.353

Ai Weiwei 

Model of Ai Weiwei home and studio, Caochangdi 

1999

2017.448

Sou Fujimoto Architects, Fujimoto Sou 

Model no. 339, Home-for-All (2011–2012), Rikuzentakata, Japan 

2012

M+ Collection Archives: Highlights

CA40/2/2

Frank Lloyd Wright 

Wasmuth Portfolio: interior perspective of living area with fireplace, Avery Coonley House (circa 1907–1912), Riverside, Illinois, USA

1910

CA29/2/8/2

Architects Team 3 

Photographs, house for Robin Loh (1973), Stubbs Road, Hong Kong

[circa 1973]

CA39/3/8/2

Wang Chiu-Hwa, Percival Goodman 

Slides, Fain Residence (1954–circa 1960), Providence, Rhode Island, USA 

1954–[circa 1961]

CA8/11/1/6

Paul Rudolph 

East elevation, proposed residence for Wee Ee Chao, Plantation Road, Hong Kong 

11 September 1996–17 September 1996

CA16/2/14

Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd. 

Exterior photograph, Residence of Mr Jackson Wong (1966), Chung Hom Kok Road, Hong Kong 

[circa 1977]

CA30/2/10/1

Wang Dahong, Dahong Wang & Associates 

Negatives, preliminary plan and perspective drawing, Hong Lu Apartment House (circa 1964), Jinan Road, Taipei, Taiwan

September 1962

CA39/3/2/2

Wang Chiu-Hwa, Percival Goodman 

Slides, Braude Residence (1976–1978), East Hampton, New York, USA 

[circa 1976–circa 1978]

CA30/3/1/3

Wang Dahong, Arpen Team 

Preliminary site plan, Li's house, Hua-lien (Hualien), Taiwan 

27 February 1997