Leopold Banchini 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

ALE ESTUDIO   Spain   The Botijo house goes for rational, austere construction where the elements forming the structure and enclosures are presented in honest engagement with the surroundings. It stands on a street in Madrid’s Carabanchel neighborhood, where low houses ar

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   More than any other building type, the architect’s home is a faithful reflection of their language, desires, and concerns; in sum, of their style. The house the authors designed to become their family residence is a true laboratory of experimentation

Studio Moto   Belgium   Modular is good. Two paired holiday dwellings and a shared small studio are fitted together in a prefabricated orthogonal grid that allows a straightforward layout and leaves the door open to possible reconfigurations in the future. Situated within a

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

MH.AP Studio    Spain   There were three premises in this residential project sited in the Catalonian municipality of Salou: Alba’s desire for a sloping room with exposed wooden beams. Oriol’s for a house that connected with the garden without sacrificing privacy, and the

Izaskun Chinchilla   Spain   Incorporating vernacular elements with a contemporary language, Terrazza is conceived in the spirit of deep respect for the environment. The project carried out for the developer Somium Properties uses materials like wood and thermo-clay, erosion-con

Molestina Architekten   Spain   Placed on an axis running parallel to the coastline, the linear house is closed to the street but opens up gradually to the landscape towards the west. The long piece culminates in a tall, open porch that offers views of the Mediterranean Sea. The ki

Harquitectes   Spain   Integrated into the landscape of Pals, a municipality of the comarca of Baix Empordà, in Catalonia, this house rises over the remains of an old farmhouse named Mas Geli, of which only two facades with buttresses and a pair of spaces with stone vaults

Ignacio Borrego   Spain   Amid pine trees and sand formations, this dwelling rises on irregular terrain near the Entrepeñas reservoir, in the Peñalagos development of the municipality of Pareja (Guadalajara), in La Mancha region. With a built area of 253 square meters, it com

Shim-Sutcliffe Architects   Canada   Point William, a region on the Canadian Shield, is the location of this house surrounded by water and vegetation which was built and rebuilt following a scheme by the Toronto firm headed by Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe. A 1980s building that st

RDTH architekti   Slovakia   The Czech firm RDTH Architekti —René Dlesk and Tamara Horová Kolaříková— has transformed an old mill and farm in Slovakia into a house, putting in wooden elements that refer to preexisting rural constructions. Beside a small stream in Trenčín stands

Nordest arquitectura   Spain   The project takes off from the idea of building two homes for a family in Rupiá, a municipality in the Baix Empordà region of Girona province. Combining bioclimatic, functional, and integration arguments, the intervention analyzes the relationship be

Manuel Cervantes Estudio   Mexico   Designed in collaboration with the client, the designer James Perse, this house is located in the Mexican state of Nayarit, on the Pacific coast. Independent low pavilions – containing nine rooms, communal spaces, swimming pools, and a spa – are dist

Bindloss Dawes   United Kingdom   The Old School House of Pitcombe, in the English county of Somerset, was built in 1864. The listed building was turned into a house in the 1940s, and enlarged thirty years later with a bedroom wing. This extension has been demolished and replaced by

Alventosa Morell Arquitectes   Spain   With a simple design and a bioclimatic focus, the LA House is laid out around a central fireplace, surrounded by four brick volumes. These four solid-looking ceramic boxes are placed at the ends of the house and contain the rooms. In contrast with th

Gianni Botsford Architects   United Kingdom   Gianni Botsford’s project respectfully integrates the enlargement of a house built by Norman Foster in the late 1960s in Hampstead, north of central London. The result is a four-story building with…

Efrén Munarriz   Spain   With a built area of 140 square meters, this house of exposed concrete – poured into a formwork of wooden planks – stands at the extreme point of a simple town-block of doubly open-ended plots, in a neighborhood of dwellings raised by the Housing Min

Schneider Lengauer Pühringer   Austria   Though it is only a 19th-century addition, the tower of the castle of Hagenberg – with four bulbous pinnacles at the corners of its roof – gives the Austrian village its characteristic image, and the iconic profile of this vertical structure has even

EFFEKT   Denmark   The result of a collaborative effort of the VELUX Group, the architects at EFFEKT, and the engineers of Artelia, Living Places Copenhagen presents seven real-scale prototypes in the Jernbanebyen neighborhood of the Danish capital. Five open pavilions

PPAA Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados   Mexico   This design was based on a respectful grasp of the nature that inhabits the city of Valle de Bravo. The open upper floor engages directly with the surrounding treetops, giving the project its essence. The dwelling adapts to the natural topography, ab

Canobardin   Spain   On a farm in Zafra de Záncara, a municipality of fewer than a hundred inhabitants in Cuenca province, this new-build rises on a plot that is completely flat but for a slight slope toward the southeast, which the design of the building takes advantage

Gonzalo Bardach arquitectura    Argentina   A conifer forest in Costa Esmeralda, in the Argentinian province of Buenos Aires, is the location of this building of fluid, organic shapes, organized in partly buried, single-level pavilions and crowned with green roofs. They adapt to and take advan

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature-length film, The Room Next Door premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival, where it received a 17-minute ovation. Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, it tells the story of tw

Enrique Morillo   What makes a house a home? The walls that shape it? The people who live in it? Maybe the objects that adorn it? Answering these seemingly obvious questions has been the obsession or dream of many. So, beyond its purpose as a shelter, ideas on the hou

Leandro Villalba   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 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

Philip Jodidio   Homes for our Time

Various authors   Lima  2022  
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú   - 188 Pages 

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