Anna & Eugeni Bach   Spain   This block of three apartments rises on a tight plot between party walls at Calle Horta 107 in Barcelona. The Catalan practice of Anna Bach and Eugeni Bach sought to preserve the neighborhood’s character while applying a contemporary language. The st

Baum Lab   Spain   The Seville firm Baum Lab – Marta Barrera Altermir, Javier Caro Domínguez, Miguel Gnetil Fernández – was commissioned to refurbish an 18th-century house-with-courtyard in the old quarter of the city of Seville. The intervention on a built area of 310

AZAB   Spain   The Bilbao-based firm AZAB – Cristina Acha, Miguel Zaballa, Ane Arce, Iñigo Berasategui – has turned a 1980s farmhouse into two homes for its owners, a couple and their grown-up daughter. Amid orchards and pasture, the project pursued a double take

studio raro   Italy   On the outskirts of a small municipality in the Trentino region, the ecology farm called La Dolce Mela occupies a property in a picturesque valley known for its cultivation of apples; a place which in the course of time has become a popular destinati

Piano Piano Studio   Spain   Valencia-based Piano Piano Studio, headed by Maria Donnini and Maria Grifo, was commissioned to insert a dwelling between party walls on an elongated rectangular corner plot in Foios, a municipality in the comarca of La Huerta Norte. The site conditi

Pau Vidal Arquitectura Produccions Vivas Arquitectos   Spain   At Alí Bei 100-102 stands a building containing 49 apartments for senior citizens and 10 temporary accommodations for people in danger of social exclusion. Promoted by the Barcelona City Hall’s Institut de l’Habitage i Rehabilitació (IMHAB), it occup

Marià Castelló Architecture   Spain   A rural plot in Formentera, one of the Balearic Islands, is the site of this project carried out by a team led by Marià Castelló and Lorena Ruzafa. With a built area of 94 square meters, the work is fragmented into three independent white volumes, re

Arqbag   Spain   On a square around which grew the municipality of Vilanova de Meià, in the comarca of La Noguera, Lleida province, the Catalonian firm Arqbag —Jordi Mitjans, Bernat Colomé, Simona Cerri, Alfonso Godoy, Adrià Vilajoana, and Marc Díaz— has turned a bui

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   This freestanding dwelling is placed in the middle of a parcel between woods and farmland near the village of Buggenhout. The modular steel fence that encloses it is an integral part of the design, defining the volume of the house and setting it apar

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   The expansion of a nineteenth-century townhouse in the heart of Ghent resulted in a second house – a ‘summer house’ marked out by a precise modular frame of steel sections, overgrown with grapevines, that sits in the irregular outdoor space alongside

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen   Belgium   This weekend house fills the whole of a deep lot in a small town in Flanders. An existing row house on the site is turned into guest quarters, while its long backyard is absorbed, transformed into the weekend house proper. The new house is organized

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)...

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The house can be a laboratory of innovation, but also a theater of dreams. Most of the residences featured in general publications have this latter character, because they show unreachable spaces we can only fantasize about, and correspond to product

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The exploration of domestic intimacy that inspired the exhibition ‘El espacio privado: cinco siglos en veinte palabras’ (‘Private Space: Five Centuries in Twenty Words’ at the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1990) is abridged and extende

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

Nicholas Olsberg   Berlin  2019  
Hatje Cantz   - 292 Pages