Grupo Ayuso   Grupo Ayuso presents its Pérgola series for terraces and gardens. With mixed aluminum and canvas coverings, it is designed to provide spaces where one can enjoy the open air while being sheltered against adverse weather and temperature. The pergolas

Peris + Toral arquitectes   Spain   A project launched by Barcelona’s Municipal Institute of Housing and Renovation (IMHAB), a new eight story residential building redefines the urban landscape of Distrcit 22@. Integrated into the fabric of Cerdá’s expansion grid, the building covers t

MCEA | Manuel Costoya Estudio de Arquitectura   Spain   Located in Santiago and Zaraíche, a district of the municipality of Murcia, this housing development of 138 units for rent consists of a single building rising twelve floors plus an attic, on the two central plots of a linear property of four. This a

Urbanitree   Spain   ‘Terraces for Life’ was the scheme that won the bid for 40 social housing units promoted by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge of Barcelona (IMHAB) at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. For this project in the Sant Martí district, in the Verneda

Ricardo Sánchez González Ángel Munárriz Blasco   Spain   This development promoted by Madrid’s Housing and Land Corporation (EMVS Madrid) is located in the Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles neighborhood of the district of Puente de Vallecas, on a 9,798-square-meter plot with a maximum buildable area of 15,920

MVRDV   Albania   On its main facades, the tower is characterized by cantilevered offices and apartments. Each one of them represents a town or city of Albania, so the visual play they generate with the terraces, seen from afar, configures an abstract map of the count

CEBRA architecture   Albania   The impressive mountains that surround the capital of Albania inspire the design of this mixed-use skyscraper set to be the country’s tallest, and houses apartments, shops, boutique hotel, business area, offices, and parking as well as restaurants an

Bofill Taller de Arquitectura   Albania   Four concrete volumes with a circular floor plan – based on the silos where the Barcelona office is located – are organized symmetrically around a square-shaped core. The exaggerated proportion and the color palette of the interior create an almost t

EM2N Architekten   Switzerland   How do we want to work tomorrow? That is the question that EM2N set out to answer in designing the building located at Binzstrasse in Zurich. From the start of the project it was clear that the Swiss practice would itself take part of the rental spac

Triptyque Architects Office   Brazil   This apartment building stands 124 meters tall, redefining the horizon of Curitiba, the capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná. Its loadbearing facade frees the interior spaces of structural constraints and ensures that layouts are reversible. Addr

Estudio Montevideo    Argentina   With a built area of 693 square meters, the Valpo residential development sought to be a redesign of the classic loft concept, offering a new way to live on the outskirts of the Argentinian city of Córdoba. The scheme generated flexible, fluid spaces

Vivas Arquitectos EXE Arquitectura   Spain   This residential building, commissioned by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitage de Barcelona (IMHAB), is integrated into the industrial environment of the Poblenou neighborhood, in the San Martín district. It combines traditional foundations with a s

Palma Ana Nuño de Buen   Mexico   Located in Sayulita, in the southern Mexican state of Nayarit, this residential project consists of two homes adapted to the natural slope of the site. They go by one same architectural language and materiality, but respond differently to the topogra

Carles Enrich   Spain   The site of the this project for the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) is a narrow plot that was a marés stone quarry, on the outskirts of the municipality of Palma. The shape of the building, which contains eleven social-housing units, complies wit

FRPO   Spain   The 27 officially subsidized dwellings built by Nasuvinsa in Tudela’s Azucarera neighborhood is part of Navarra Social Housing, a regional plan to provide affordable rental homes. Located on the edge of the urban fabric, with views of the agrarian la

Taller Héctor Barroso   Mexico   In response to the growth of the Escandón neighborhood in Mexico City, this building at Antonio Maceo 8 spans 2,000 square meters. Behind a heritage-listed facade rise four concrete volumes containing thirteen dwellings on five stories, and they make

Max Dudler   Belgium   On the banks of the Scheldt River, west of Antwerp’s old town, the new district called Nieuw Zuid is taking shape, and within it Max Dudler, in collaboration with the firm Jaspers Eyers Architects, has completed the Scheldehof complex. With a built a

Endosdedos arquitectura    Spain   This new seven-unit apartment block is located in the Málaga neighborhood of Molinillo, at Duque de Rivas 48. The project name, Mazarí, refers to both ceramic material and the kiln used to make it in a week-long baking process. With a tradition that

LAN Architecture   France   This 50-meter-tall timber-framed residential block stands in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. Its three main components are a commercial base, 132 apartments, and communal areas for residents, including a 300-square-meter terrace on the 8th floor, a vers

Esch Sintzel Architekten   Switzerland   The concrete structure of a wine storage facility has been reused to create a new residential building, thereby significantly minimizing the energy consumed in its construction. Thick pillars in the lower levels, crowned with a truncated cone-shaped

GWJ   Switzerland   Six blocks have gone up around an inner street towards which the more public zones are oriented with the intention of consolidating a small but very active neighborhood. Attached to the blocks, which contain over a hundred living units, timber framew

Summacumfemmer Büro Juliane Greb   Germany   A gridded structure offers the members of a cooperative the opportunity to have dwellings that are easy to adapt to changing needs, with spaces that can even be shared among neighbors. Around a kitchen that functions as a distributor, fourteen-square

Feld72   Austria   A plot between party walls, partly occupied by an old house, is now filled with a housing block that incorporates the preexisting into a steel-and-glass framework of industrial airs. Above commercial levels that recover the old construction are thirt

Déchelette Architecture   France   A building intended for social housing presents toward the street an innovative self-supporting screen of tamped earth, in contrast with the wooden facade behind. Like the wooden structure, the blocks of earth came prefabricated and were simply stack

Four winners of the MATCOAM Awards were announced in the course of a gala event that closed the second Construction Week organized by the Madrid Institute of Architects (COAM), from its building department, MATCOAM. The prize in the Refurbishment cat

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The AV/Arquitectura Viva project turns 40 in 2025, and this is a good time to look back on our DNA. What was initially called Monografías de Arquitectura y Vivienda was a quarterly magazine edited by a public housing company, and of the four issues p

The AV/Arquitectura Viva project marks its fortieth birthday this year, and to celebrate this anniversary the first issue of 2025 returns to the theme of its maiden issue: collective housing. And if in 1985 it focused on the Berlin IBA, this time it

Abel Fernández Villegas   A phantom advances across Europe, and along the way it stumbles upon serious difficulties to find accommodation. Housing is one of the problems that are besieging the Old Continent, immersed as it is in a residential crisis that threatens the very fo

With the intention of portraying an entire generation, Los años nuevos tells the story of a couple over the course of ten New Year’s Eves, and in it are reflected many of the concerns that assault people in their thirties: employment insecurity, work

Kenneth Frampton   Dear Luis Fernández-Galiano, By way of wishing you a happy New Year, I simply wanted to express how much I appreciate your faithful contribution to architectural culture world-wide and particularly to Spain, so much so that one has the feeling that y

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named 85 Social Housing in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona), an 85-unit timber-framed social housing development designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes, as the winner of the RIBA International Priz

The software developer Epic Games and the visualization firm Neoscape have created an interactive model showing how architect Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 housing development in Montreal would have appeared had it been fully realized. Epic Games and Neo

Josep Maria Montaner   Zaida Muxí   The cooperative that calls itself Lacol came into being in 2009 as an initiative of young architects and students averse as much to the usual logic of hierarchical study programs as to professional exploitation. It was also a bit more than ten years

In April 2022, as a consequence of the conflict in Ukraine and in the context of the United Nations Forum of Mayors, the Mayor of Kharkiv, Ihor Terekhov, asked Norman Foster to lead the masterplan for the reconstruction of the city. The Norman Foster

Luis Fernández-Galiano   We need more dwellings, and we need better cities. Housing is the field where the main contemporary challenges converge, from youth precarity or mass tourism to uncontrolled immigration or climate change, problems all of them that – beyond requiring

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

Fundación Norman Foster   As part of the new concept masterplan being developed for the city of Kharkiv, the Norman Foster Foundation along with the Kharkiv City Council, UNECE, Arup and the Kharkivproject Institute are launching an international competition to improve housin

The housing problem

When in a famous essay Friedrich Engels denounced the living conditions of workers in Victorian England, the construction of dwellings became one of the principal themes of socialism, and eventually it found its way into the list of fundamental right

Eduardo Mangada   In the ruined Milan of the postwar, a distinguished group of architects committed itself in both theory and practice to the city’s physical and symbolic reconstruction. The likes of Gio Ponti, Luigi Moretti, Ernest Nathan Rogers, and Ignazio Gardella

Ricardo Aroca   Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia. A combination of combustible facade materials, air chambers between the building’s sk

The building, completed in 2009, incorporated a facade system consisting of an insulation material and a cladding applied by means of a substructure attached to the outer side of the wall. An air chamber between those two layers improved acoustic ins

Arquitectura Viva gathers in one volume of 320 pages, with a special price of 60 euros, hardbound and in fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, 50 housing projects built in Spain since the year 2000. Always at the center of the architectural debate

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

Friends of Residential Treasures: Los Angeles (FORT: LA) is collaborating with Frances Anderton, longtime architecture advocate and author of Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, on an innovative online resource called “Awesome and Affo

Since 2014, the price of housing in Portugal has been increasing more than 6% per year. Lisbon was the municipality in the country most affected by this problem, infecting the surrounding districts and pushing inhabitants out of the centre. The exhib

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

Andrea Bajani   Barcelona  2022  
Anagrama   - 288 Pages 

Philip Jodidio   Homes for our Time

José Miguel Roldán Mercè Berengué   Barcelona  2022  
Roldán + Berengué   - 152 Pages 

Philip Jodidio   Contemporary Houses around the World

Carmen Espegel Andrés Cánovas José María de Lapuerta   Temas de vivienda colectiva en la Europa del siglo XXI

Dogma   Cambridge  2022  
MIT Press   - 320 Pages 

Andrés Cánovas Carmen Espegel José María de Lapuerta   European Collective Housing 2000-2021

Andrés Cánovas Carmen Espegel José María de Lapuerta Salvora Feliz   Madrid, 1956-1966

Corinna Del Bianco   Spontaneous Living Spaces in São Paulo

Alba Carballal Lorenzo Sangiò   Barcelona  2021  
Flamboyant   - 52 Pages 

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

Kenneth Frampton Michael Webb   A Laboratory for Living

Fernanda Canales   Espacios privados

Cristina Rodríguez de Acuña   Madrid  2020  
Ediciones Asimétricas   - 142 Pages 

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

Victoria Rosner     2020  
Oxford University Press   - 292 Pages 

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

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

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

Carlos Solé Bravo   El sueño de la casa tecnológica

Luis Machuca   Espacios para vivir, prefabricados

Manuel Martín Hernández Vicente Díaz García   Participación, autogestión, habitabilidad

Nicholas Olsberg   Berlin  2019  
Hatje Cantz   - 292 Pages 

Daniel Movilla   Lund  2017  
Studenlitteratur   - 326 Pages