2024-12-22T09:21:52-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150004025/screen-print-53-richard-meier-ponders-the-meaning-of-home-in-america-today Nicholas Korody 2017-04-21T12:09:00-04:00 >2017-04-21T12:09:12-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/kt/ktkhoppiaz53npe4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>&ldquo;What does it take to make a house a home?&rdquo; asks Bernard Friedman, editor of the newly-released book <a href="https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/bernard-friedman-american-idea-of-home" target="_blank"><em>The American Idea of Home: Conversations About Architecture and Design</em></a>. Featuring interviews with thirty of the most significant architects practicing today, the volume probes the meaning of home past and present, as well as the role of architecture in constructing it, particularly during an era when most American homes aren&rsquo;t designed by architects at all.</p>