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

Batlleiroig   Spain   At the foot of the Collserola mountains, this university residence for the British company Vita Student is located in Barcelona's Pedralbes neighborhood. All of its 274 rooms face the exterior. The ventilated facade presents a greenish ceramic finish

Arquitectura-G   Portugal   Within the Quinta da Ponte in the Portuguese town of Sintra, a few kilometers from Lisbon, is this two-story construction that is part of a row of buildings arranged along the perimeter wall of the property. The ground floor contained a shop, and the

Hsü Rudolphy   Chile   This residential building made of shipping containers, meant for young users, is a 1,400-square-meter, 4-floor construction raised with 6 prefabricated blocks of stairs and 70 recycled containers, which dynamically alternate to form little balconies.

Andrade Morettin Arquitetos   Brazil   Located on the north coast of São Paulo, this 240-square-meter summer house stands a few meters from the sea, hidden amid a lush forest. The neutral volume opens to the outdoors with sliding doors, and lets daylight in through panels of polycarbonate

Rodrigo Currás Torres   Spain   A work of the Galician architect Rodrigo Currás Torres (Moaña, 1980), this house is located in Guisande, a village under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Brión, in A Coruña province. It is organized by means of spatial cells juxtaposed with a

ArchStudio    China   The Chinese firm ArchStudio has renovated and enlarged a traditional house with a courtyard, named Mixed House, on the outskirts of Beijing. Led by Han Wenquang and Li Xiaoming, the project involved restoring two constructions standing on the north a

Joan J Fortuny Giró Alventosa Morell Arquitectes   Spain   This residential development of the Balearic Housing Institute (IBAVI) rises on a rectangular plot with 54 dwellings above ground – distributed in three levels opening out to terraces or private gardens – and parking underground. Adapting to the very

Atelier Daniel Flórez   Brazil   Conceptually the house is like an inverted ship, with a succession of structural elements of laminated timber fixed to a visible indoor concrete gutter. On Sagi Beach (Baía Formosa, Brazil), the Gutter House project creates twin homes for two friends

Amann Cánovas & Maruri - Temperaturas Extremas AMM - Adelino Magalhaes   Luxembourg   - Two Madrid practices – the studio of Atxu Amann, Andrés Cánovas, and Nicolás Maruri on the one hand, and AMM-Adelino Magalhaes on the other – have in collaboration with João Nunes and Carlos Ribas of the Lisbon-based landscape architecture firm PRO

Cristián Izquierdo   Chile   The vertical laminated timber elements that form the structural module of the ensemble are exposed to the exterior. In this way, the five dwellings open up to the street as one volume, concealed behind a rhythmic and continuous facade. On the transve

MARS Architectes   France   The block, separated from the street by an eleven-story building, faces the restrictions of the site and addresses the environmental commitments of cities today with a wooden structure that reconciles technological innovation and aesthetics. Behind t

AMUNT Nagel Theissen   Germany   A pitched timber roof lies on a play of volumes that rest strategically on the sloping terrain. The apparent abstraction that organizes the floor plan maintains a visual connection between the space indoors and the idyllic environment. The living are

COBE Architects   Germany   Though each volume has its own character, the ensemble keeps a marked sense of unity thanks to the similarity of colors, details, and materials. The open ground levels, designed to offer a range of public services, connect the four buildings...

fala   Portugal   The Portuguese firm fala – set up in 2013 by Ahmen Belkhodja, Filipe Magalhães, and Ana Luisa Soares – built this transparent guesthouse-studio that takes up the entire width of a narrow garden. Connected to the property's main house by paths of woo

Arenas Basabe Palacios Soyka/Silber/Soyka Architekten   Austria   With a useful surface of 5,100 square meters, this project is located in Siemensäcker, an 8-hectare new residential neighborhood in the north part of Viena. Selma am Park offers 65 apartments in three blocks varying in dimensions. The design uses the

Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen The Andes House    Chile   Designed by the architect Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen with The Andes House, this project seeks to provide an affordable solution to the problem of scarce decent housing that afflicts Chile and Latin America at large, through a modular building system tha

FGR Architects   Australia   Looking like a rectangular origami of concrete and glass, this sculptural dwelling presents volumes in layers that preserve privacy while leading to a courtyard with a garden. Adopting the classic Mediterranean model with a central courtyard, the low

OHLAB   Spain   This 3,300-square-meter residential development contains fifteen units. The project started with an analysis of the modifications carried out over time in two buildings located in the heart of the old town of Palma de Mallorca, and registered in the

Hanghar   Spain   This project in Madrid’s Carabanchel district creates an 85-square-meter unfinished space that the inhabitants can renovate on a limited budget, saving on construction costs. The bareness allows future interventions where expensive finishes are unnec

Rafael Moneo Lucho Marcial   Spain   The construction of Mercer Hotel, located in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, tried not to disregard structural elements, and to demolish without damaging the remains of the past. The main idea behind the project was to recover the spatial character

Rafael Moneo   Spain   Javier Marquet, Javier Unzurrunzaga, and Luis María Zulaica invited the architect to join their team in working on the project for an apartment building within a closed block to go up on the plot of the Urumea jai alai court in San Sebastián. This me

Arenas Basabe Palacios   Austria   The Madrid firm Arenas Basabe Palacios, in association with the engineers of Buschina & Partner, was commissioned to build 11 blocks for a total of 82 apartments in Wildgarten, a new neighborhood in Vienna’s Meidling district. The succession of build

HW Studio   Mexico   In the heart of the rural Mexico that Juan Rulfo immortalized with his pen and his camera, a house-cum-office appears as an intersection of axes asserting its presence in a landscape dominated by flatness, but at the same time respects it by drawing

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

Kronos Homes, a residential property developer under Kronos Investment Group, pursues high-quality design projects in the Iberian Peninsula, in collaboration with architects of note. Its constructions seeks to blend into their environments by aiming

Pier Vittorio Aureli   Martino Tattara   Daniele Ceragno   The right to the city and the issue of housing can nowadays be tackled through an emphasis on the communal, for which urban villas offer a plausible model.

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

On view through 15 January 2023 at the Museo ICO in Madrid is ‘Domestic Dawns: Collective Housing Issues in 21st-Century Europe’, an invitation to reflect on the main concepts on which the new livability of residential buildings is based. Curated by

Nave Fabra & Coats With Fabrizio Barozzi at the helm and joined by Agnès Blanch, Daria de Seta, Manel Marín, Pedro Matos Gameiro, and Rosa Rull, the jury of the 2021 FAD Awards bestowed the Architecture prize on the 46-unit social housing development

The house has traditionally been a promising ecosystem for young architects. Straight out of university, inexperienced and with not much to show for on their agendas, ‘newby’ professionals look for work wherever they can, and renovations of the homes

The European Commission and the Fundació van der Rohe have revealed the names of the finalists in the competition for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, five in the principal Architecture section an

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

Norman Foster   From 6 to 8 October the Palais des Nations in Geneva was the venue of a meeting of ministers from states belonging to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The member states agreed to endorse Regional Action Plan 2030, which seek

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

LSE   Ricky Burdett   Jean-Louis Missika   The media has been quick to predict the premature demise of New York, London or Paris. Yet it is difficult to learn lessons about the impact of the pandemic on major cities, because it is not over. Surveys and statistics are very popular, but often m

The Mexican firm Manuel Cervantes studio was invited to participate in the 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, directed by Dominique Perrault, which, titled ‘Crossroads: Building the Resilient City,’ is ongoing until 31 October at the D

estudioHerreros   ¡¡ Collective housing is the essence of urban culture in our country and many others. However, the trauma of the Covid-19 pandemic has made us realize that in the 200-year history of those buildings we call ‘collective,’ managed by homeowner associat

Norman Foster developed sketches to illustrate the regional action plan for the UNECE region “Place and Life in the UNECE – A Regional Action Plan 2030: Tackling challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, climate and housing emergencies in region, city,

The Real Deal   Rapper, entrepreneur and aspiring architect bought Tadao Ando-designed pad for $18M under original list price. The rapper, entrepreneur and aspiring architect and developer bought the 4,000-square-foot concrete home at 24844 Malibu Road in an off-mar

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 New York Times   Stefanos Chen   The condo board at the supertall tower 432 Park Avenue, one of the most expensive addresses in the world, is suing the developers for $125 million in damages, citing multiple floods, faulty elevators, “intolerable” noise caused by building sway, and

The Economist   Tweaking economic incentives might help boost housing supply. Economists do not agree on much, but they do almost all think that a shortage of housing is a big drag on the economy. Zoning laws and conservation rules have proliferated since the 1960s,

Bloomberg    James Tarmy   Advances in concrete, elevators, and engineering have created a new breed of buildings. Every apartment at 432 Park Ave. in New York City has a phenomenal view, but there’s one direction none of its residents can look: straight down. The 1,396-foot-h

Central Park Tower   Located on Manhattan's Billionaires' Row and steps from Central Park at 217 West 57th Street, this new architectural landmark, by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, rises 1,550 feet (472 meters) above New York City and houses 179 of the mo

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

Philip Jodidio   Contemporary Houses around the World

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Dogma   Cambridge  2022  
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Alba Carballal Lorenzo Sangiò   Barcelona  2021  
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Cristina Rodríguez de Acuña   Madrid  2020  
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Michael Meredith Hilary Sample   Montreal  2019  
Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) Corraini   - 128 Pages 

Victoria Rosner     2020  
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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  
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Fernanda Canales   El derecho a la arquitectura

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