Spasm Design Architects   India   The Mumbai-based firm Spasm – founded by Sangeeta Merchant and Sanjeev Panjabi – was commissioned to build this house amidst a coconut grove in Nandgaon, a town in the Murud region. In Urdu, one of India’s more than twenty official languages, parikra

Estudio APLG   Colombia   Located in the rocky formations called Farallones de Cali, within the territorial subdivision or corregimiento of Pichindé, the Guanes House is a work of the firm APLG (Arquitectura para la Gente), led by Diego Guzmán and Álvaro Avendaño. Encompassin

Oval Estudio Luis Arredondo   Spain   This residential project, directed by the architect Luis Arrendondo of Oval Estudio, involved revamping a house between party walls within the historical core of Montuïri (Majorca). The plot was distinctive, presenting 5 meters of frontage to the nor

Bernardo Bader Architekten   Austria   At an altitude of 1,100 meters, this wooden dwelling was thought up with the clear intention of reducing everything to the essential. Grounded on simplicity, it is a reinterpretation of the concept of the original hut. The solitary house seeks to mak

Nomo Studio   Spain   The Barcelona firm Nomo Studio, founded by Alicia Casals and Karl Johan Nyqvist, designed this one-family home on the coast of Menorca. In a single floor the house gently extends across a sloping site full of pine trees and native plants, engaging in

Carlos Jiménez   United States   Compared with the large residences to be found in North Dallas, which evoke different historic styles, the house on Strait Lane is modest in size and scale, giving more importance to the landscape of the extensive site. With a total area of 520 squar

Dekleva Gregoric architects   Slovenia   The firm of Aljoša Dekleva and Tina Gregoric designed these holiday house close to Lake Jasna and Triglav National Park in Slovenia, near the Italian and Austrian borders. They intertwine tradition, innovation, nature, and architecture, redefining th

Lacol   Spain   This 344-square-meter house in the historical center of Villareal is the result of joining two plots on which previous constructions were very deteriorated, so much that refurbishing them was ruled out. The house includes an independent office and a

Pedro Domingos   Portugal   Built high on a hill near the town of Santa Bárbara de Nexe, this concrete house fuses with nature while evoking the image of an old ruin. To make the most of views, the main livable zones are placed in the upper level, a 385-square-meter space. The

deAbajoGarcía   Spain   This residential project uses industrialized construction techniques and dry assembly as strategies to optimize resources and reduce emissions, as well as minimize waste generation and integrate principles having to do with the life cycle of material

Bojaus   Spain   In its abstract and material essence, the X house arises from a tension between a stunning location and the desire to inhabit it. The conflict is addressed with a firm determination to create a new element that is not ‘in,’ but ‘of’ the landscape, in

arquid   Spain   Casa Umbral (Threshold House) stands out for its unique ceramic facade and its carefully designed openings and volumes that both ensure privacy and connect with the exterior. With a total area of 768 square meters it is organized in four volumes: one

Plantea Estudio   Spain   “I want no porches,” said the owner of this residence during initial discussions with the firm Plantea Estudio. The glass panels are aligned with the facade, forming a perfect prism. The operable windows are minimal, and awnings unfolding in front n

Kolman Boye Architects   Sweden   Overlooking the port of Stockholm, this wooden residence rises on an irregular plot bordered by steep cliffs. A work of the practice of Erik Kolman and Victor Boye, it seeks to reduce its environmental footprint to a minimum. By partly clinging to th

Zarcola Architetti   Italy   Rustic but refined like the pastoral characters of the eclogues, a small dwelling nestled into a village in the Lessini Mountains emerges from what was an old barn, between the stone walls of which a structure of fine wooden laths, set three centimet

TEST   Spain   This prefabricated house presents a balloon-frame structure of eight modules, each measuring approximately 3x3x3 meters, and are clad in panels of texturized wood. It rises on pillars reinforced with sprayed concrete, joined by mechanical fixing elem

Cánovas Arquitectura Lux Architect   Germany   The house, built entirely with wood, is located close to Augsburg in Bavaria, with views of the Schmutter Valley. Rising 7 meters and containing two floors, it is collapsible and was designed with painstaking attention to every detail, in an effort t

Group Projects Architecture   United States   A work of the Brooklyn firm Brooklyn Group Projects Architecture, the house is situated on a large parcel in Millerton, New York state, surrounded by trees and offering views of the Catskill Mountains. It stands at the lower meadow level, following t

Nendo   Japan   Six cottages connected by sinuous pitched roofs seek a balance between family unity and the individual privacy of four kin. Surrounded by lush vegetation and with views of Mount Asama, the weekend refuge is located in Karuizawa, a town in Nagano Pre

Guillermo Hevia Catalina Poblete   Chile   The main objectives in this commission were to ensure views of the lake, one of Chile’s largest, for the entire house, and to make it easy to adapt to different situations (owners being alone or with their children or other visitors). The solution ev

Lezaeta Lavanchy Tomás Tironi   Chile   This wooden house in the south of Chile responds to a privileged natural environment, between a green plateau and a forest of coihues that descends to Lake Ranco. The 147-square-meter residence is organized on a rectangular floor positioned parallel

López Rivera Arquitectos   Spain   The house, with a built area of 363 square meters, is located within the buildable limits of the Basque municipality of Gautéguiz de Arteaga, in the environs of the wetlands of the Urdaibai biosphere reserve. Its shape is irregular, adapting to a sou

BeAr Architects   Spain   Naninuena is a narrow elongated house that responds to the site’s topographic conditions. It adapts to the pronounced slope of the terrain with meticulously positioned supports anchored directly to the bedrock, preserving this fragment of the territo

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

This selection offers a tour of twelve houses we have published in 2024 that tackle the matter of domestic space through different strategies. Varying in dimensions, the dwellings insert themselves into their contexts by relating with their surroundi

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

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