Lecumberri & Cidoncha   Spain   The Pamplona practice of Jokin Lecumberri and Antonio Cidoncha has built this house in Lérruz, in Navarre’s Lizoain Valley. Seeking to blend into the place through a sensitivity for local construction traditions, the volume containing the shared spac

S-AR   Mexico   In a hidden spot near Puerto Escondido, on the coast of Mexico’s state of Oaxaca, stands this single-family house. An external grid composed of concrete beams and columns surrounds a central nucleus, which contains a bedroom, a kitchen-dining room, a

Harquitectes   Spain   The residence presents two central spaces, which receive overhead light in order to curb the excessive shade cast by the trees, and are conceived in bioclimatic terms so that they serve as extensions of the garden. The monolayer solution of the ceram

Germano de Castro Pinheiro   Portugal   Successive operations of dubious quality, carried out in the course of recent decades, had disfigured a 16th-century farmhouse, and in adapting it for use as a family residence the objective was to restore original elements of the construction, conso

René Pérez Gómez Arquitectura    Mexico   Located in a forest close to the Mexican city of Guadalajara, the two-level house descends on a very rugged topography. The geometrical composition seeks to reduce the impact of the construction on the existing terrain, and strike a dialogue with the

GarciaGermanArquitectos   Spain   Located in a development called Somo-Boo, in the Cantabrian capital, this house adopts the classic L arrangement to obtain a protected outdoor space. Rooms interweave under a horizontal lid that acts as a tray for the main volume with its pitched roo

Estudio CO–A   Spain   The Barcelona firm Estudio CO-A, founded by Clara Ocaña, has renovated this 1930s dwelling of long corridors, typical in the elongated morphology of the standard floor plan of apartments in the Eixample, where the buildings is located. The client req

MCL Studio   Argentina   The city of Moreno, in Buenos Aires province, is the location of this residential complex built by MCL Studio, a firm headed by Juan Micieli. With a built area of 7,200 square meters, the building is organized around a central cloister, which, integr

Tigges Architekt   Spain   This threel-level residence in the Montjuïc neighborhood of Girona gives privileged views of the Sant Daniel Valley and the Montseny range. The basement and the ground floor present a concrete structure pigmented with brown tones, and serve as a base

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   At the client’s insistence on absolute independence, it was decided that the solution would be an enclosed space, a hortus conclusus. The house, bordered by four walls rising 3.5 meters, is an 18x18-meter square divided into three equal parts. Only t

Alberto Campo Baeza   Spain   The turégano house is the result of a competition the owners called for amongst their architect friends. The topography, midway down a hillside, the rigorous compliance with building codes, and the maximum economy of means were compositionally resolv

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

Global Construction Review   A Chinese manufacturer has once again demonstrated the use of its modular construction method by erecting a 10-storey apartment block in a little over a day. Broad Group accomplished the feat in its home town of Changsha using bolt-together modular u

What kind of houses do we live in? How do today’s architects design our homes? How have notions of housing changed over the last generation? This exhibition analyses investigations and answers to these questions through the work of several architects

The Economist   Giving equal weight to each of the 16 countries for which the model has data, its central estimate is that the rally is likely to stall but not reverse. It expects appreciation to slow to 3.4% this year, and to 0.7% by 2023. Much of this deceleration

The Economist   On a sunny afternoon in Kingsmere, a new suburb of Bicester, a town 50 miles (80km) north of London, the streets are abuzz with people strolling and children playing. In ten years 1,600 homes have been built on the site, and another 900 are soon to f

The New York Times   Stefanos Chen   The Rafael Viñoly-designed 432 Park Avenue supertall tower, one of the wealthiest addresses in the world, faces some significant design problems, and other luxury high-rises may share its fate. The nearly 1,400-foot tower at 432 Park Avenue, briefly

The Architect's Newspaper   Matt Hickman   London-based Heatherwick Studio has shared design plans for a pair of “curvaceous, light-filled” residential towers jointly commissioned by Bosa Properties and Kingswood Properties for Vancouver’s West End neighborhood. Details on the arboreal-inspir

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

The residential building that the Madrid-based trio Arenas Basabe Palacios has raised in the Spanish capital’s Salamanca neighborhood has two different faces: towards the street it presents a classical tripartite composition soberly regulated by pref

The Guardian   Oliver Wainwright   What will homes be like 10 years from now? Judging by the winners of the Home of 2030 competition, sharing will be key – if Brexit hasn’t forced out all the skilled labour. Shared home-working spaces, communal garden sheds and houses built using apps

OMA   Norra Tornen, the residential towers in Stockholm, designed by OMA / Reinier de Graaf, has been announced the winner of the ninth edition of the International Highrise Award (IHA)...

Carlos Fernández Salgado Fernando Escamilla Valencia Luis Moya González   Madrid 1949 - 2010

Fernanda Canales   Espacios privados

Kenneth Frampton Michael Webb   A Laboratory for Living

Cristina Rodríguez de Acuña   Madrid  2020  
Ediciones Asimétricas   - 142 Pages 

Victoria Rosner     2020  
Oxford University Press   - 292 Pages 

Michael Meredith Hilary Sample   Montreal  2019  
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Corraini   - 128 Pages 

John F. C. Turner   Por una autonomía del habitar. Escritos sobre vivienda, urbanismo, autogestión y holismo

Daniel Adam Barber   Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War

Barbara Miller Lane   Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945-1965

Manuel Martín Hernández Vicente Díaz García   Participación, autogestión, habitabilidad

Luis Machuca   Espacios para vivir, prefabricados

Carlos Solé Bravo   El sueño de la casa tecnológica