AV Proyectos 127 explores earthen construction, a technique recovered in projects like those of Boltshauser Architekten, Studio Mumbai, Assemble or Peris+Toral, among other studios included in this dossier that shows how tradition and innovation can

In 1929, Le Corbusier imagined an architectural manifesto that would become one of the masterpieces of the Modern Movement. Today, almost a century later, and in a clear declaration of intentions from the Madrid-based luxury brand, the Villa Savoye h

Two decades since their first collaboration, Louis Vuitton and artist Takashi Murakami have worked together again to design a pop-up store inspired by the modular capsule hotels of Tokyo, and which was on view in New York’s SoHo. The space was made u

Frida Escobedo   United States   The galleries devoted to the growing holdings of modern and contemporary artworks at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) will be undergoing a revamp, following a scheme, selected in 2022, by the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo. The first ima

Lina Ghotmeh   United Kingdom   The British Museum has announced that Lina Ghotmeh Architecture has by unanimous vote won the bid to redesign its Western Range galleries. The scheme drawn up by the Paris-based firm led by the Lebanese-born architect carried the day over the other f

Fernando Vela Cossío   Architecture has undergone an intense critical revision over the last two decades – a period during which paradigms such as the respect for the environment, energy efficiency, and attention to sustainability have gained strength. All of this has made

Leopold Banchini Architects, Sana Nabaha   Morocco   Two parallel walls of rammed earth form a linear succession that forms a rural house in Al Haouz, Morocco. Redefining the traditional house-courtyard typology, Dar El Farina breaks up its sequenced domestic spaces by means of pivot doors. The sun shi

munarq   Spain   This project builds on the resources available in the area. A specific type of soil defined by its excellent cohesive capacity is used to build all the walls. So the building is raised with local materials and techniques, incorporating the traditiona

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   The Barcelona practice of Marta Peris and José Manuel Toral was commissioned by the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) to build this residential complex in Ibiza. It is designed to get the best in terms of sunlight and sea views as well as to harness

Taller Héctor Barroso   Mexico   One of the open tournaments of the professional tennis circuit is held on premises where the facilities, presenting a simple wall of rammed earth, blend with the desert landscape. A series of platforms molds the terrain to form playing courts, which

Assemble, BC Architects & Studies   France   Le Magasin Électrique is part of a complex previously used for the construction and maintenance of trains, built in the mid-19th century, and now harboring the Luma Arles art center. The revamp begin in 2013 and gave rise to the Frank Gehry-designed

Studio Mumbai, Studio Médtierranée   France   The new extension is built using earth excavated from the site, compressed and repositioned to create spaces that are large enough to accommodate the winery program, as well as a reservoir, carved into the ground, where rainwater is stored. Archetypa

Boltshauser Architekten   Switzerland   The tower, measuring eight meters tall, functions as viewing deck, exhibition space, and furnace. Timber boards are added to the pre-stressed pieces of adobe and steel that form the walls to make their transportation easier in case of disassembly...

Alejandra Galache   For centuries, and as a logical response to material availability, the global construction standard has been earth. The rise of industrialization caused this system to lose ground to concrete and steel, but with the current climate crisis earth has r

For Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño, founders of the Barcelona studio TAKK and professors at Columbia University, the future harbors many uncertainties, which they have decided to face from an optimistic and propositive perspective. Faced with m

Snøhetta   China   If in the impressive Bibliotheca Alexandrina Snøhetta proved that roofs can become facades, in the symbolic Norwegian National Opera and Ballet they demonstrated that roofs can also be plazas, and almost twenty-five years later the echoes of both des

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The only surreal work by Le Corbusier is not by him. As the monumental monograph by the Aachen University professor Wim van den Bergh shows, the very famous image of the grass-floored terrace with Paris’s Arc de Triomphe rising behind a wall where a

From December 2024 until February 2025, the ADI Design Museum of Milan has welcomed the Architecture for Dogs project, in which Kengo Kuma, Ma Yansong, Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima, Atelier Bow-Wow, and MVRDV have offered, along

‘Tiffany Wonder’ is the title of an exhibition that documents the cultural legacy of Tiffany & Co., the American jewelry design house, over its almost two-hundred years of existence. The show was staged at Tokyo Node gallery, inside Toranomon Hills S