Living on Water: Contemporary Houses Framed by Water Maps illustrated with rare documents and

illustrated with rare documents and representative examples from the period

Robert O’Byrne is today one of Ireland’s best-known writers and lecturers specialising in the country’s historic houses and gardens

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Living on Water: Contemporary Houses Framed by Water Maps illustrated with rare documents andPhaidon, 2018 272 pages, Hardback. A sumptuous survey of houses built with a strong connection to the oceans, lakes, rivers, and pools around them Living on Water showcases the finest examples of residential architecture that have one thing in common their special relationship to that most essential of elements: water. These homes have been designed with water as a fundamental key to their very essence whether built with a water view, built on water