Daiber & Aceituno Arquitectos   Chile   Located in a dense forest in southern Chile, near the city of Puerto Varas, this house presents itself as a compact volume raised on a sequence of arches that minimize its contact with the ground. This construction strategy of the studio led by Diego

Quena Margarita González Escobar Juan David Hoyos Taborda    Colombia   With a built area of 67.5 square meters, this house stands as an example of sustainable architecture in the rural zone of Fredonnia, a municipality of the Colombian department of Antioquia…

Kuma & Elsa   Japan   Outside Tokyo, in front of a majestic Buddhist temple surrounded by a park that stretches over several blocks, the practice of Elsa Escobedo and Shohei Kuma has built a one-family house that silently engages in dialogue with the surroundings. Guided

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   A coach house survived the demolition of the ‘fin-de-siècle’ villa that it served, and after fulfilling different purposes in the course of the 20th century, it has become home to a family. That there could only be windows on two sides was solved by

SOLUM   Italy   Although Daedalus built the labyrinth in Crete, it is now on the other side of the Ionian Sea that an intricate, inward-looking construction rises, opening out to the surroundings on only one of its sides, towards the sea horizon. With the simplicity

Robbie Walker   Australia   The brief called for a small house to share with family and friends. The client, deeply committed with the natural environment, made it a priority to preserve the existing trees in the thick forest where the building is located, in the region of Vict

Duarte Fournies Arquitectos    Mexico   The house is located in an Andean valley in the center of Chile, with an extreme climate of cold winters with rain and snow, and warm summers. The owner will live by herself in this isolated environment, receiving guests occasionally. Considering thi

Fernanda Canales   Mexico   This house is many houses in one: one looks towards a circular interior patio, the other opens up to different views along the outer perimeter; one is at ground level, and the other is a green roof, 360º+360º. An extroverted house during the day, loo

Fino Lozano Moro Taller de Arquitectura   Mexico   The house is located in the small town of San José de Gracia, Michoacán de Ocampo, in the center of the country. The project seeks as its main objectives to be economically and environmentally feasible, to blend into the landscape, and to design simp

DIIR   Spain   The 500-square-meter SO House arose from a clear idea of interconnected spaces engaging with one another while remaining independent. The result is a single-family house that presents itself as flexible, capable of adapting and transforming without l

Atienza Maure   Spain   Not far from the chimney chutes that embody the industrial memory of Sant Adrià de Besós, the offices of a technology firm – and also the residence of its founder – have settled in what was once a printing company within a block set between party wal

Buero Wagner   Germany   Located on Lake Starnberg in the foothills of the Alps, about 20 kilometers from Munich, these two houses combine timber and concrete. They stand on a site where there was only one dwelling, which was demolished because of the poor quality of its str

Padilla Nicás arquitectos   Spain   In Valdemorillo, a municipality in the Community of Madrid, surrounded by trees on a choice spot next to the Valmayor reservoir, stands this renovated house. The original building was not well oriented with respect to the sun. Encompassing a total of

Alventosa Morell Arquitectes   Spain   In Matadepera, a municipality in the comarca of Vallès Occidental, in Barcelona province, a young couple built their first home on a 600-square-meter plot that was part of a larger property of the family. Located at the foot of the majestic massif of

Twobo arquitectura   Spain   Evoking the architecture of the ancient Greek and Roman villas of Ampurias, the Tres Patis House in Albons (Girona) reinterprets the essential elements of those classical constructions on a contemporary note. The residential project, designed by Twob

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Sweden   A vacation house rises on a slope as a simple prism propped up by ‘pilotis’ in order to alter the terrain as little as possible and give the occupants good views of a nearby lake. Inserted into the block, executed with untreated cross-laminated timbe

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   The brick partitions of an industrial construction in the vicinity provided the inspiration for the revamp of this house as a succession of rooms separated by thick walling. From the street side to the rear of the plot, the walls gradually become tal

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   The centripetal layout of a house enhances the connection between indoor spaces and the exterior and facilitates circulation for one of the resident family’s members, a wheelchair user. Varying in proportions and ceiling height, all the rooms of the

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   Located on the seafront on the cliffs of the Majorcan municipality of Calvià, the single-family house Ca na Birgit is an example of architecture sensitized to the environment and local climate. Encompassing a built area of 194 square meters, the proj

Estudio ods   Portugal   The Portuguese firm Estudio ods – Bruno Oliveira and Marlene dos Santos – undertook the project of transforming an old fish-canning factory in Olhão, a municipality it the Algarve region, into a dwelling. The plant was part of a group of five buildin

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

Luis Lope de Toledo   What happens when an architect sets out to design without a preliminary scheme, and speaks with the builder only via WhatsApp? Manuel Ocaña transforms what could have been a minor anecdote – turning a pigsty into a family room – into a deep, non-comp

Alejandra Galache   On the wooded hills of Saint-Cloud, outside Paris, stands a distinctive house. Dominique Boudet, editor-in-chief of Le Moniteur, tasked OMA in 1984 to build a home with conditions stipulated by his wife, Lydie Dall’Ava, who wanted bespoke spaces for

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

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