After decades of degradation, the Arenales neighborhood of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is undergoing a spurt of progressive transformation driven by the purchase of homes. One is House M, which builds upon a corner construction presenting in an advanc
With a built area of 260 square meters, the project involved reconstructing a house in the Japanese city of Muko, in Kyoto Prefecture. The area was previously dotted with farmhouses, each one composed of a main house and a group of other residential
The Tree House is situated in the communal garden of two small cottages, curving around a central sumac tree. Its ramped interior connects the old buildings with the new ones, reorienting the house around the garden to create a fully accessible famil
Through a simple gesture, this barn is converted into a livable space: an incision empties out a section of the volume to generate a new access and improve lighting. On one side of the cut, glass; on the other, a mirror that creates an optical effect
The commission consisted in transforming a traditional Catalan country house in the Empordà region. The ensemble was made up of a main building to which, over the years, auxiliary constructions had been added, creating a fragmented and dark interior
This building is located by the main vehicle access of the Quinta de Recreio estate, and replaces an auxiliary building that collapsed and was irrecoverable. Due to current regulations, the new construction recovers the footprint, the volume, and the
Two aspects unrelated to the project, prior to it, deeply marked the character of the house. So much so that the project, in a way, is understood as a complement that is added. On one hand, the privileged location on a promontory with views of the Ca
The changing landscape of the Ebro Delta is shaped by the rice production cycles, from being a plain of land to a mirror of water during the flooding season of the fields, to then transform into an intense green prairie with the growth of rice plants
El encargo consistió en una intervención sobre una situación urbana poco habitual: una vivienda pareada en el interior de una manzana del Ensanche de Barcelona. Como punto de partida, se buscó enfatizar las peculiaridades del volumen, caracterizado p
Originally, this building – currently under construction – contained the winery and residence of the workers and household staff of Quinta de Recreio. The existing volume contained different divided segments connected by several stairs. Despite the c
Due to peculiar urban circumstances, this dwelling does not have a facade as it is confined within the block, bordering on other buildings along its entire perimeter, with the exception of the reduced entrance courtyard. There are no possible views t
Following her desire to live in a garden, the client found what she was looking for in the center of the Spanish capital, and set out to build her first home there. The garden was hidden to the street behind an apartment block, and had a small volume
The client – Nacho, a good friend of the architects – wanted to transform his photography studio, which had a backyard, into a home. It was a simple commission which had to address the essential needs of a dwelling: a place for sleeping, a place for
The void between two houses on one same block of the urban core is filled by a roof that connects a succession of domestic spaces – some protected overhead, others exposed to the open air. The dynamics of the thresholds under the roof create a dialo
MO.CA is a prototype for a self-sufficient mobile dwelling, built using zero-kilometer laminated wood and digital construction techniques. It was developed in the Advanced Ecological Building & Biocities (MAEBB) masters program offered on the Valldau
The Vigo practice of Jordi Castro and María G. Ferro was commissioned for this dwelling with views over the estuary of Pontevedra, in the Galician municipality of Bueu. The site was chosen by the client, who wanted a place in which to retire, a house
Immersed in a humid tropical climate, with strong monsoon rains, this house in the city of Kadirur, in India’s State of Kerala, combines indoor and outdoor spaces, interweaving them with courtyards, landscape pockets, and biophilic features that conn
A couple bought an old building that stood on a small plot of land in Berlin’s Heiligensee neighborhood, close to the lake of the same name. Combining artificial stone and concrete colored with anthracite pigments, the cubic volume that resulted from
So exacerbated by the romantic imagination of modernisme, the medieval character of Barcelona’s old quarter is less attributable to ogee arches and flamboyant traceries than to the relationship between the alleys within the confines of the old walls
A cross the coast from Portsmouth, in the waters of the Solent, the Isle of Wight is characterized by its rich natural environment and a climate that is gentler than elsewhere in the British Isles. This attractive context and Queen Victoria’s frequen
The new house is extended out from an existing cottage on the site. It is set in a landscape of exceptional natural beauty on the outskirts of the picturesque village of Goleen, a small rural area in County Cork, in the southwest corner of Ireland. T
In a greenbelt location less than an hour away from Central London, Piper’s End is a quiet town in the county of Hertfordshire. The undulating landscape of the area is dotted with laconic greenhouses, sheds, and farmhouses. The design of the new hous
This project is a house and art gallery for a private collector, situated in the garden of an existing terrace near the city center. To adapt to the proportions of the site, the building is conceived as a long, linear volume with a stone base and a f
This single-family dwelling, built in 1982, is a work of the Argentine architect Ricardo Gomara, located in one of the most favored areas of Punta del Este, Uruguay. Situated on the front line at stop 20 of Playa Brava, this house illustrates a perio
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
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
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
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
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…
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
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
Philip Jodidio Homes for our Time
Various authors
Lima 2022
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - 188 Pages
Philip Jodidio Contemporary Houses around the World
Fernanda Canales Privacidad en un mundo compartido
Kenneth Frampton Michael Webb A Laboratory for Living
Cristina Rodríguez de Acuña
Madrid 2020
Ediciones Asimétricas - 142 Pages
Carlos Solé Bravo El sueño de la casa tecnológica
Nicholas Olsberg
Berlin 2019
Hatje Cantz - 292 Pages
Xavier Guzmán Urbiola Victor Jiménez Toyo Ito
México 2014
RM - 127 Pages
Fernando Távora
Oporto 2013
Universidade do Porto
Peter Eisenman
Nueva York 2003
The Monacelli Press - 303 Pages