Luis Fernández-Galiano   Economy colonizes language, and homes today are essentially properties. Both in the real estate supplements of newspapers and in residential reality-shows, dwellings appear as containers of savings and of dreams, presenting the house as the main aspi

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Yes, of course we love the house, particularly in its anthropological dimension, because we are after all indebted to that phenomenological tradition that questions the indistinct space of modernity, claiming a return to the singularity of places, a

Eduardo Arroyo, NO.MAD   Spain   In a residential complex with a golf course and a blurred urban character, the building stands out against the void context relating the program to the landscape’s most interesting elements. To achieve this its positions are defined and linked to the

Juan Manuel Vargas, Víctor López Cotelo   Spain   This single-family house belongs to the hotel complex located in the old tannery by the River Sarela, forming part of an operation to recover its banks. The Fábrica de Curtidos La Ribera de San Lourenzo (a tanning factory), built in 1790, is an indus

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   Building a house for a poet. That was the starting point of the project, located on a plot of some 440 square meters in a residential development in the southwest of Zaragoza. The house follows a clear and simple scheme, occupying three rectangular f

Iñaqui Carnicero   Spain   The 1+1=1 house is devised as a property shared by two families tied by close friendship, thus departing from social conventions by which sentimental relationships are the only possible model to justify financial commitment. The proposal must include

Beatriz G. Casares, Carmina Casajuana, Marcos González   Spain   Built in three months and assembled in three days, this vacation house is located on a steep slope, in an area dominated by the presence of the ocean and a forest of eucalyptus trees. The terrain is surrounded by harvest fields, family farms and pitc

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   Historically, ancestral homes are the properties that have fostered the coexistence and represented the families that owned them. Regardless of their location, their grandeur, their time or their site, all of them have borne the signs – names, herald

Ignacio Paricio, Abeba Arquitectes, Clotet & Paricio, Lluís Clotet   Spain   The building, of a single floor, takes up 266 of the 1,334 square meters of the total area of the plot, located in a residential neighborhood of the 1950s. The plot, however, was not large enough to isolate the house from the neighboring ones, and th

Carlos Ferrater   Spain   The house follows basic geometric rules, so simple that they concentrate the whole strength of the project. Like the Ricarda House of Antonio Bonet – basic source of inspiration for this house – the AA house is based on the addition of a series of sq

estudioHerreros   Spain   Building an object of contemporary image and technology and inserting it in nature without domesticating it is a gesture closer to art than to the tradition of ‘building a house’ as the act of appropriating a place; closer to rising over the ground a

Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation   Spain   This operation starts with a 1,300 square meter sloping site located in the Cala Vadella valley, a picturesque natural harbor in the island of Ibiza. From the ground on this hillside, which has a 20% average slope and a north-west aspect, one can see

Martín Lejarraga   Spain   The house takes up part of a plot of 1,039 square meters north of the city of Murcia, in a residential area dotted with single-family dwellings, close to important roads of peripheral traffic and to the university campus of Espinardo. The scarce cont

Alfredo Payá Benedito / Noname 29   Spain   This pavilion-house is built on two adjacent plots in a residential area of San Vicente del Raspeig, north of Alicante. The plots were previously occupied by an old house of scarce value, a pool, and a vegetable garden that had been grown for over tw