“Una casa come me” was the instruction that Curzio Malaparte gave Adalberto Libera when he contracted him to build the villa in Capri that Brigitte Bardot would immortalize walking down its stepped roof, wrapped in a bathrobe, in the Godard film. Equ
Bringing contemporary life into this traditional courtyard without diminishing memory was the objective of a project fundamentally pursuing dialogue between past and present. Located in a typical alley or hutong in old Beijing, the construction falls
With offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, New York, and Rome, Ma Yansong’s firm MAD has finished renovating a house in an old hutong, revitalizing the Chinese capital’s traditional alley where dwellings are arranged around courtyards and toilets are ofte
Using familiar materials and evoking the vernacular building types found in the area, the home constains a service center, a day care center, and 145 assisted-living apartments.
Like others in the area, this masia (Catalan farmhouse) was built on rocky ground. It had to be adapted to the slope of the terrain, which, in combination with various enlargements and modifications carried out over time, gave rise to a labyrinth of
The Chinese firm ZAO/standardarchitecture – Zhang Ke, Zhang Mingming, Huang Tanyu, Ao Ikegami and Dai Haifei – has inserted a 30-square-meter hostel in one of Beijing’s hutongs, those alleys of the city’s tight central neighborhoods where low houses
The location is a plot that was originally occupied by three small dwellings embedded in the old wall of the castle of Oropesa, a town in the central Spanish province of Toledo, and serving as a nexus between the castle and the Church of Our Lady of
The project is an upgraded version of the traditional portable dwellings developed by nomadic people of Central Asia, and is built with raft wood pieces, attached with polyster rope and stainless steel joints, with roofs made out of cotton canvas.&nb
This house for three peasant families follows the pattern of traditional homestead in Bangladesh, keeping the kitchen and the sanitary units in external buildings, and leaving remaining land for gardening as a means to overcome the food crisis. Sensi
The definition of the word quincha makes reference to a traditional construction system that uses cane, reed or similar materials to build walls, which are later covered with mud. In Argentina, the quincha is also the place where the family gathers t
When they are misused, digital media can come to separate human knowledge from the manual, direct, and repetition-based learning on which the crafts have always been founded.
In the past decade, the tabula rasa of Chinese economic development has given way to a generation of architects seeking in tradition the motifs for constructing a new national language.
La tradición carpintera española, perdida en el siglo XX, se recupera hoy en el ámbito de la restauración y en las investigaciones formales inspiradas en las nuevas tecnologías.
Las soluciones constructivas que reuniremos bajo este epígrafe forman un grupo muy heterogéneo. Aunque cuantitativamente este conjunto es mucho menos importante que el estudiado en el número anterior, no tiene la coherencia que vinculaba todos los ed
