If there is no doubt that ‘size matters’, and that scale is one of the main factors in architecture, it is also true that the propositional interest of a building is independent from its size. To support this argument, the sixteen houses selected her

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Architects are dimensional beings, attentive always to the size of things. Students used to be advised to carry a measuring tape to check the height of a step, the width of a door or the depth of a frame, and several generations were trained in desig

Sean Godsell   Australia   The built area of the house is reduced to a minimum, with two small translucent sheds – one for cooking and one for sleeping – that sit on a monolithic concrete plinth and are brought together under the same roof.

1-1 Architects   Japan   The irregular perimeter of the plot, along with the proximity of the neighboring houses, is addressed with a narrow oblong just 1.8 meters wide and a careful positioning of windows and doors to the garden.

Russell Jones   United Kingdom   In contrast to the materiality of the Edwardian constructions in the neighborhood, the house is embedded in nature thanks to the use of Siberian larch and Douglas fir both indoors and outdoors.

HW Studio   Mexico   The perpendicular crossing of two paths, along with their respective stone walls, organizes the house in independent quadrants, which separate a garden at the entrance, a parking, the living area, and a workspace.

taller11   Spain   The house uses a single climate control system: a 20 cm-thick active slab at ground level, which conveys heat to the spaces above through the mass of the remaining levels (built with tie-beams and jack arch brick) and the stairs.

Harquitectes   Spain   Placed behind the main facade, the staircase shaft functions as a patio that favors natural ventilation while protecting the living space from street noise and disturbances and controlling the views from and to the exterior.

Christian Kerez   Czech Republic   This house, with the appearance of a brick fortress, goes up in a quiet suburb northwest of Prague, within close proximity to Villa Müller by Adolf Loos. The construction – which can be divided into three apartments – is formed by sixteen tangent cyl

Arquitecturia   Spain   The volumes are unified by a same material approach, with a contrast of color and texture between their two strata: the lower one of concrete bearing walls and the upper one with a white roof of laminated wood and the skylights.

Langarita Navarro   Spain   The coast of Cádiz becomes the lead character of the project: a house that, evoking the bow of a ship, emerges from a stone plinth to rise over the lush and rugged slope and to open all its spaces to the Atlantic.

Studio di Architettura Zermani Associati   Italy   The decision to maintain and restore the defensive tower determined the layout of the house in an L shape and the composition of the whole as an eminently horizontal volume that accentuates the tower’s height.

Thomas Phifer and Partners   United States   The property is located in the town of Ghent, Columbia County, on an expansive site that accommodates sculptures, walking trails, a small alpaca farm, beehives, and ample grazing land for local cattle farmers.

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The external image is given by the superposition of three levels in a cross-shaped plan and rotated 45º from the previous one, generating a sequence of opaque surfaces combined with large terraces open to the landscape.

ELEMENTAL   Mexico   Developed to contribute to the TEC raffle, which finances scholarships through the sale of lottery tickets and whose first prize is a house, the project had to adhere to very strict guidelines and a precise area of 600m².

Aires Mateus   Portugal   In the town of Barreiro, in Setúbal, the remains of two old warehouses, unified into a single space, are integrated in the project as the outer enclosure of the house. Outside, the ruin appearance and the traces of the industrial past of this area, b

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office   Singapore   As Bachelard said, the dreams that transport us back to childhood sometimes gravitate around the house in which we felt protected, the ‘topography of our intimate being.’ So it is that the special affection three siblings feel for the home they grew

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   The village of Santa Lucía Alto, in the region of Yungay, is surrounded by fertile plains and high peaks. One of its lush forests in the foothills of the Andes Mountains becomes the site for his house-studio, an ambitious project of over 2,400m² that