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

Summary   Portugal   The architecture studio Summary, founded by Samiel Gonçalces in Porto, is the author of this group of five single-family homes built with prefabricated reinforced concrete. The project stands out for its modular approach, its constructive efficiency,

Blasco Esparza Arquitectos   Spain   The aim of the project to build 24 subsidized housing units (VPOs) in the Horno de Coscolín of Tudela’s historical center was the urban regeneration and social revitalization of one of the most degraded zones of the old quarter. This area, a witness

AV62 Arquitectos Calderon-Folch Arquitectes   Spain   In Viladecans, a Barcelona municipality in the comarca of Bajo Llobregat, this residential complex containing 22 officially subsidized dwellings blends organically with the surroundings. The project is organized in two volumes – rising three and five

Ruizesquiroz Arquitectos   Spain   Just 40 meters from Calle Estafeta in Pamplona, known for the San Fermín bull runs, stands this block of four homes, a renovation project led by Josean Ruiz Esquíroz in collaboration with Enrique Morillo, Marta Muñoz, Roberto Romero, and Sandra Ojea.

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

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   Settling on a sloping tract of land, two rows of dwellings integrate numerous spots for neighbors to socialize in, from loggias and roof decks to a central plaza and a small orchard. The eleven units varying in size feature spiral staircases rising t

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   Part of a development on the grounds of a loading terminal, a block maintains a certain industrial look but gives it nuance through exterior galleries conducive to community living. The mixed structure of steel and concrete accommodates apartments th

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

SV60 / Cordón & Liñán Arquitectos   Spain   This residential complex is conceived as a permeable system, traversed by multiple openings that connect both facades of the building and link up with the inner courtyards. Such porosity not only takes advantage of the climate conditions of the place

MIAS Architects   Spain   This residential block is located in the heart of Raval, a neighborhood within Barcelona’s old town. Its cultural diversity is among its main assets. In this context, the refurbishment project launched by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barc

Haz Arquitectura Bayona Valero Cantallops Vicente Ensenyat Tarrida   Spain   Barcelona takes another step forward in its commitment to providing affordable housing with the construction of this building at Illa Glóries, which is part of a larger development being carried out by IMHAB (Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barc

Cierto Estudio Franc Llonch   Spain   A project of the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB), the Illa Glòries housing development of four blocks and 238 dwellings is located between Gran Via de las Corts Catalanas, Carrer dels Encants Vells, and Plaça de les Glòries. Th

Vivas Arquitectos Pau Vidal   Spain   Building C of Illa Glòries is part of an ambitious project instigated by the Institut Municipal de l’Habitatge de Barcelona (IMHAB) that offers a total of 238 apartments in four buildings (A, B, C and D). Located in a strategic enclave within the Sup

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   Located between two busy intersections in Basel, Voltaplatz and Lothringerplatz, the residential development completes the broken outline of a traditional perimeter block north of the city. With the introduction of an underground highway in 2008, the

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   These dwellings designed for Wohnwerk, a Basel-based foundation devoted to supporting disabled people, sought to reaffirm the institution’s importance in the neighborhood by replacing outdated facilities and offering a more visible image, open to the

Christ & Gantenbein   France   On the left margin of the Seine River, the 15th arrondissement of Paris – also known as Vaugirard – is the most populated city district, where a varied residential fabric coexists with extensive parks and one of the tallest skyscrapers. The intervent

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   A few kilometers from Lucerne, the town of Kriens is promoting sustainable and controlled development, applying policies to densify the urban fabric and create compact neighborhoods with highly diversified uses. Much of this growth is taking place so

Christ & Gantenbein   Germany   Located in the heart of Hamburg, the Willy-Brandt-Strasse is a road that was cut across the city after World War II, when a good part of the center was destroyed. The road was conceived as a fast way for vehicles crossing the city from east to west.

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

The project ‘Gardens for an Acrobat’ has won the competition organized by the Madrid Municipal Housing and Land Company (EMVS Madrid) for the construction of 166 affordable rental apartments in the Mahou-Calderón area of the Arganzuela district. The

Enrique Morillo   In an era of incessant confrontation – when misinformation, conflict and and polarization reign – public opinion barely even agrees on the challenges to address. But recent times have seen the spread of a certain unanimity on housing. We are stunned

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

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