Daroca Arquitectos   Spain   In Arahal, a municipality in the province of Seville that takes its name from the Arabic term Ar-rahal, meaning a place along a path where one stops to rest, stands this 1920s house which José Luis Daroca Bruño and Jaime Daroca Guerrero have refurbis

Ágora arquitectura   Spain   In the comarca of Baix Llobregat, specifically in the Barcelona municipality of Sant Vicenç dels Horts, stands this house on a plot delimited by an openwork brick wall. On the pilastered base of the same material, which contains the clayey earth

Martín Peláez   Spain   Ainhoa Martín and Francisco Peláez have carried out a full renovation for a home-cum-studio in a 1917 building located in the Madrid neighborhood of Palos de Moguer. Their Madrid-based practice, Martín Peláez, explains that the name of the project re

Olalquiaga Arquitectos   Spain   On the outskirts of Madrid stands this one-family resdience, in a 7,000-square-meter property occupied by a forest of pine and holm oak trees. With the idea of preserving these trees, the scheme unfolds on a single level, taking up the maximum area a

Grafton Architects   Ireland   The site for the new house for the President of the Limerick University in the west of Ireland was chosen to be on lands across the river Shannon. Using traditional techniques, the house sits alone in the landscape establishing a relationship with th

Boltshauser Architekten   Switzerland   To ensure proper shear transfer in the horizontal joints, the rammed earth walls are provided with a vertical post-tensioning system of steel cables. This can be re-tensioned to compensate for settlements of the rammed earth...

marte.marte architects   Austria   Outside Laterns, in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, this holiday refuge is a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional wooden dwelling. Coated in light-toned lying planks, it presents a black timber frame rising on a stepped concrete plinth.

Arquitectura-G   Portugal   Within the Quinta da Ponte in the Portuguese town of Sintra, a few kilometers from Lisbon, is this two-story construction that is part of a row of buildings arranged along the perimeter wall of the property. The ground floor contained a shop, and the

Andrade Morettin Arquitetos   Brazil   Located on the north coast of São Paulo, this 240-square-meter summer house stands a few meters from the sea, hidden amid a lush forest. The neutral volume opens to the outdoors with sliding doors, and lets daylight in through panels of polycarbonate

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   This loft building marks a further step in the revitalization of Werkhof L57, a small compound of former military facilities that has evolved into a lively creative quarter. Haus 6 occupies a plot that is surrounded by historic buildings made of bric

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   K House forms part of the western edge to the English Garden in the center of Munich, which, historically, was defined by a border of 18th-century villas. Hence the new building combines a varied programme into a volume that is an interpretation of t

1-1 Architects   Japan   Just like its language, Japan’s real estate market and peculiar regulations can seem abstruse to Western eyes; but every now and then they produce works that, like a haiku, condense an enormous, boundless imagination in a minimal space. An example is

Rodrigo Currás Torres   Spain   A work of the Galician architect Rodrigo Currás Torres (Moaña, 1980), this house is located in Guisande, a village under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Brión, in A Coruña province. It is organized by means of spatial cells juxtaposed with a

ArchStudio    China   An everyday universe with echoes of Taoist cosmology and Confucian hierarchy, the Chinese courtyard-house has for thousands of years been the archetype that organizes family life. Although in the last century it had detractors who found it obsolete a

Atelier Daniel Flórez   Brazil   Conceptually the house is like an inverted ship, with a succession of structural elements of laminated timber fixed to a visible indoor concrete gutter. On Sagi Beach (Baía Formosa, Brazil), the Gutter House project creates twin homes for two friends

AMUNT Nagel Theissen   Germany   A pitched timber roof lies on a play of volumes that rest strategically on the sloping terrain. The apparent abstraction that organizes the floor plan maintains a visual connection between the space indoors and the idyllic environment. The living are

fala   Portugal   The Portuguese firm fala – set up in 2013 by Ahmen Belkhodja, Filipe Magalhães, and Ana Luisa Soares – built this transparent guesthouse-studio that takes up the entire width of a narrow garden. Connected to the property's main house by paths of woo

Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen The Andes House    Chile   Designed by the architect Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen with The Andes House, this project seeks to provide an affordable solution to the problem of scarce decent housing that afflicts Chile and Latin America at large, through a modular building system tha

FGR Architects   Australia   Looking like a rectangular origami of concrete and glass, this sculptural dwelling presents volumes in layers that preserve privacy while leading to a courtyard with a garden. Adopting the classic Mediterranean model with a central courtyard, the low

Hanghar   Spain   This project in Madrid’s Carabanchel district creates an 85-square-meter unfinished space that the inhabitants can renovate on a limited budget, saving on construction costs. The bareness allows future interventions where expensive finishes are unnec

HW Studio   Mexico   In the heart of the rural Mexico that Juan Rulfo immortalized with his pen and his camera, a house-cum-office appears as an intersection of axes asserting its presence in a landscape dominated by flatness, but at the same time respects it by drawing

Héctor Coss Arquitectos María Alicia Gómez Giovanni Ocampo   Mexico   In Todos Santos, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, three houses are distributed in 11 standard modules, each measuring 25 square meters. Functioning as a compound, the residential program is fragmented into one-level cubes of identical dim

SAU Taller de Arquitectura   Spain   The Catalan firm SAU Taller de Arquitecture, led by Lluís Jordà Sala and Pol Jordà Sala, designed these two attached homes in the Girona municipality of Vidrá, in the north of the comarca of Osona. They have privileged views of the mountains of Bisau

The Guardian   Dani Anguiano   The only oceanfront home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright has sold for $22m in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea, the dreamy coastal enclave where Clint Eastwood once served as mayor... The Guardian. ‘Delicate as the seashore’: rare Frank Lloyd

The tough experience of lockdown during the pandemic has made us reflect on the design of domestic space, and particularly on its connection with the outdoors. Inserted in built-up urban spaces, located in sprawling suburban areas, or embedded in nat

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Interior life needs the outdoors. During the recent viral pandemic, lockdowns reminded us that we need contact with others and with nature. From this intimate withdrawal, which is both shelter and cell, we must open up to others and to the world. Per

AD   Katherine McLaughlin   Just 35 minutes from Manhattan, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Socrates Zaferiou House sits on 2.5 private acres within Clausland Mountain Park in Blauvelt, New York. “It’s a complete escape from our New York City life, so it’s meant to be a decompression,” Sa

BBC   Wael Hussein   Yolande Knell   El plan de las autoridades, que ya han retirado la mayoría de estas estructuras, ha recibido críticas por parte de quienes las consideran un símbolo cultural y urbano…

Japan Today   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

Docomomo   Liz Waytkus   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

Bloomberg    Alexandra Lange   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,

The Guardian   Jennifer Rankin   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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,

The Economist   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

Alejandro Cervilla García   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

The Spaces   Rosella Degori   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

El País   Daniel Díez Martínez   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

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