The question of what defines “better” hovers over the tongue-in-cheek title of this book, My House Is Better Than Your House, which focuses on a private residence in southern France, the Villa Varoise, designed by Nader Tehrani of NADAAA. The Villa is primarily in conversation with the unbuilt Fahmy House, by Preston Scott Cohen. But, in fact, the conversation is “dedicated” to a series of unbuilt early houses with complex geometries Cohen designed—the Torus House and Wu House included—to which Tehrani’s approach to form-making comes close with this project. At first glance, the exercise may seem insular, yet a deeper reading reveals that the betterment in the title is an effort to engage in a debate about design at a truly disciplinary and tectonic level.