

The urban disorder that surrounds the house compels it to radically turn inward and organize itself in a classic sequence of spaces around a large quadrangular courtyard. Behind the opaque facade, auxiliary spaces are pushed to the four corners so th
A coastal house organizes an extensive program through a meticulous composition of spaces, geometries, and materials that together seek to adapt to the diverse needs of the occupants. The external contrast between the whitewash and the red-tiled clad
The ground floor of a rural house – in a building once used for sheltering cattle – is transformed with minimal actions into a leisurely space flowing in continuity with a recovered front garden. A sinuous concrete platform is elevated over the groun
A small lakeside cabin in northern Ontario is conceived as a hedonistic setting for a three-way sentimental relationship to be lived to the full and in close connection with the outdoors. The enclosure’s stainless steel sheets and military stamp sugg
The renovation of a house built in the 1980s is reduced to isolated interventions that play with surfaces and textures to give the place personality without sapping its essence. Maintaining the original layout as it is, the revamp makes use of contra
In an old industrial shed between two rear courtyards, a house is organized around a band that contains utilitarian spaces while separating the private from the more public areas. Attached to the wall of white concrete blocks are different functions
The voracious appetite for real estate has stamped out traditional sceneries to make room for anonymous territories of the kind where many of our cities grow. The phenomenon is ubiquitous but all the more visible in ‘suburban’ zones, those terrains v
Inserted between large rocky formations and adapted to the inclined topography, this one-family dwelling seeks continuity with the surrounding natural fabric while optimizing views of the city. With a total built area of 165 square meters, a series o
In the historic center of Mérida, capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, stands this house which is a modern take on elements of vernacular architecture. The proportions of the plot – a rectangle 80 meters long and 8 wide –generate a longitudinal p
Located in A natural landscape, with the Pacific Ocean to the south and the mountains to the north, this residence-studio was designed for a Mexican artist who divides his time between New York and his home country. The first project decision was to
This detached dwelling is located amid the rich natural environment on the outskirts of Treviso, Italy. The commission included both site planning and layout, so the project allowed great flexibility and freedom. The only request presented by the cli
The Upper East Side in Manhattan is known since the early 20th century as the luxury residential area of culture. The project, located on the southeast corner of Lexington Avenue with Gramercy Park, remodels a penthouse gallery on the top floor of a
The site is located in a quiet residential district close to the center of Chicago. Along this long, narrow north-south oriented site, the objective was to produce a comfortable and private residential space while developing an interaction with the n
The regeneration of Naoshima, a small island on Seto Inland Sea, is a cultural project that was launched in the second half of the 1980s. The first building within this initiative was Benesse House Museum, an ‘overnight stay’ museum that includes lod
The site is located in a quiet residential district in Setagaya ward. It is a three-household residence for the client couple and their respective parents. While ensuring privacy and independence for each family, the housing plan allows the three hou
The site is located on a verdant slope in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture. It is a house for a well-known Japanese fashion designer. Taking on the abundant nature of the local environment, and a program with a high degree of freedom, the project aimed to ge
The district of Sumiyoshi, a working class neighborhood of Osaka, is characterized by a dense urban fabric of row houses built with timber structural frames. The project consisted in demolishing one of those traditional buildings and replacing it wit
Shortlisted for the 2022 FAD Award in the Architecture section, the house was designed as an L-shaped porch opening onto a courtyard cum garden. With a total area of 202 square meters, the three-level building is surrounded by party walls, and its wh
Elena Jiménez and Abelardo Linares did a thorough overhaul of a single-family home built in the 1920s, located next to the Quinta del Fuente del Berro Park, in the Salamanca neighborhood. Once the sculptor Jorge Oteiza’s Madrid residence, it was much
Amid farming fields bordered by trees and paths, with Mount Canigou as backdrop, stands this dwelling built by Zaga arquitectura (Nicolás Markuerkiaga, Mariana Plana, Maribel González), a 110-square-meter bungalow broken up into two volumes clad in w
Situated some 80 kilometers from Quito, the town of Mindo is part of the Chocó Andino Biosphere Reserve, in Ecuador’s province of Pichincha. Amid lush flora and rich fauna, this dwelling pursues varying degrees of connection with all the nature aroun
Designed to frame views – vistas – of the surroundings, this residence is located in Trancoso, a district of the municipality of Porto Seguro, in the Brazilian state of Bahia. Studio MK27 (Marcio Kogan, Samanta Cafardo, Beatriz Meyer) designed this h
In a small town in Ávila province, this dwelling built with local granite surrounds a hundred-year-old walnut tree. To leave its roots and top untouched, the facade curves. The building’s petrous materiality was already present in the property, in a
Last year Japan’s Serendix Partners caught our eye with its concept for spherical, 3D-printed houses. Not only do they have a stylish, futuristic appeal, Serendix wants them to be low-priced enough to make the cost of buying their 3D-printed houses c
Marcel Breuer’s first binuclear house, Geller I in Lawrence, New York has been demolished in the dead of night. Geller I is largely considered the project that propelled Breuer to private practice in New York and prompted the Museum of Modern Art to
On Nov. 17, the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, took a new name: the Edith Farnsworth House. This five-letter change marks a small but significant gesture in the decades-long effort to tell the story of one of America’s most famous modern homes,
Ever since he was a child, Hannes Coudenys had been annoyed by the “visual chaos” around him. On the road from home to his school in Bruges, he found a mishmash of architectural styles – haciendas, villas, farm-style houses, all mixed up with boxy ma
Rapper, entrepreneur and aspiring architect bought Tadao Ando-designed pad for $18M under original list price. The rapper, entrepreneur and aspiring architect and developer bought the 4,000-square-foot concrete home at 24844 Malibu Road in an off-mar
One by one, houses can become imbued with the arrogant aura of the extraordinary. Associated, they acquire the fertile condition of what can inspire familiar or serial progeny. Beyond the urban or ecological critique of detached homes, the house is c
Bernd and Hilla Becher photographed between 1959 and 1973 a large number of timber-frame houses, transformed into types by the strict German regulations, and their publication in 1977 turned the documentary series into a mythical work. For his part,
Abatch of new houses across California is selling unusually fast. In the past two months, 82 have been snapped up, and the waiting list is 1,000 long. That demand should, though, soon be satisfied—for, while it can take weeks to put up a conventional
In 1996, Editorial Munilla Lería published one of the first monographs on the work of Alberto Campo Baeza. Compact and practical in format (14x20 centimeters) and published in black and white, its nearly 250 pages summarized the first years of the ar
This house was built with healthy living in mind for naturopath Phillip Lovell. Completed in 1929, the building has numerous porches designated for nude sunbathing and cubic living spaces drenched in light via huge steel-framed windows. The Los Feliz
Para el ruso Melnikov, su vivienda se convirtió en su cárcel. Philip Johnson exhibió su día a día en la Glass House y Le Corbusier eligió para él la cabaña más pequeña que jamás había diseñado. El edificio de viviendas sociales de El Ruedo (Madrid, 1
The walls of the garden enclose a project of individual happiness. Growing one’s own orchard and tending one’s own garden are metaphors of the abandonment of collective passion; and the tamed, intimate nature of the garden is an acceptable substitute
Accustomed to thinking of the family house as a consumer unit, we often forget about its essential role as a unit of production. Essential in the rural world, where agricultural exploitation and the residence are inseparable, and no less important in
If there is a domestic area where etiquette reigns, surely it is the dining room. Table manners are just the basic catechism of an elaborate theology of food and eating. Habits and rituals intertwine to weave a dense fabric of identities and differen
In the beginning was the fire: a single fire around which the family gathered and the house was built. When the hearth was multiplied and divided, the house fragmented into individual fires warming bodies, heating water, and transforming foods. The c
Associated with the bedroom in a shared sphere of secluded intimacy, the bathroom wavers between hygiene and pleasure. The wellbeing that bodily regeneration gives fuses with the warm sensuality of the water that moistens the skin, opens up the pores
Bedroom, hub of intimacy, protective shell of the seed, place for terms and principles, for consummations and consumptions. Children and projects are conceived here, the frontiers of dreams and life are crossed. Up to quite recently, here one was bor
Fire, even confined to braziers or hidden in stoves, preserves its archaic lure. The primitive hut is bound to the first bonfire; there is no construction without combustion. The link is functional and symbolic: fire makes the house livable, warming
In the living room, the family recognizes and presents itself. It can be a setting for everyday life or a place for receiving visitors, but in both cases the family chooses it as the scene for the representation, to itself and to others, of its value
The exploration of domestic intimacy that inspired the exhibition ‘El espacio privado: cinco siglos en veinte palabras’ (‘Private Space: Five Centuries in Twenty Words’ at the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1990) is abridged and extende
The house can be a laboratory of innovation, but also a theater of dreams. Most of the residences featured in general publications have this latter character, because they show unreachable spaces we can only fantasize about, and correspond to product
Built in 1946 to the designs of Richard Neutra, the house first became famous in Julius Shulman’s twilight black-and-white frame, the misty San Jacinto Mountains in the background...
A currently fashionable theme – and real-estate attraction – in the world of Chinese architecture is the renovation of hutongs, those alleys of popular dwellings of yore, closely huddled around a courtyard, especially in the country’s capital. Ma Yan
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