Architects' Houses author-William Richards Marianne Dubuc is an award-winning

Marianne Dubuc is an award-winning author and illustrator of fifteen picture books

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Architects' Houses author-William Richards Marianne Dubuc is an award-winningThirty of the world's most talented architects, including Norman Foster, Thom Mayne, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, talk about the houses they designed for themselves over the past decade in Architects' Houses. What inspired them, what were the constraints, how did their concepts take shape? Michael Webb explores the creative process and traces the influence of architects' houses over the past two hundred years, from Jefferson's Monticello to the