Ben Lance Architects   Australia   With a length of 50 meters and a built area of 320 m², the house stands at the foot of Mount Macedon, on a plot located about an hour north of Melbourne. The site was an opportunity to design a long narrow dwelling that would make the most of the mou

Alventosa Morell Arquitectes   Spain   Located in a small coastal town in Tarragona, Casa CLO sits on a sloping plot, adapting to the topography and trees. The site has rocky ground and a very steep inclination, accessible only from its lowest point. The existing trees, the slope, and pla

Wiki World Advanced Architecture Lab [AaL]   China   The result of a collaboration between United Investment Merryda Hotel Management Group and Wiki World, Merryda Wiki World – Secret Camp brings together more than a dozen houses designed as experimental shelters in direct dialogue with nature. The com

estudio veintidós    Spain   Located in the mountains of Riaza in Segovia, the Soto de Sepúlveda house stands on the remains of an old stable built with rough stone masonry and rammed earth. The original roofs and interior partitions were in an advanced state of ruin, which call

ATELIERDACOSTA   Portugal   Intended to be temporary, the house went up under strict pragmatic premises and took on a clear-cut geometry that separates the social areas from the bedrooms by levels...

Atelier Local   Portugal   Behind a rare cork front facade is a cottage of sorts inside which the only additions have been a staircase and a beam that serves to reinforce support of the roof...

Corpo Atelier   Portugal   The intervention maintains almost everything as it was, adding only a false pillar that gives rise to a series of geometric dynamics with the effect of cropping the wooden walls and ceilings...

RCR Arquitectes   United Arab Emirates   Alwah House appears in the Dubai desert as a refuge, like an oasis, conceived with a flower’s natural logic in mind. Partly embedded in the ground, it is organized through patios and pathways that lead to spaces revealed a little at a time, respectin

JVL Arquitectos   Mexico   Located amid the privileged landscape of Cabo del Este, in Baja California Sur, the house responds sensitively to its natural surroundings, protecting itself from prevailing winds without sacrificing the open views of the sea. Access to it is designe

Sakai Architects    Japan   The self-sufficient house of Kazunori Sakai -- of Sakai Architects – is on Amami Island, in Japan. Completely disconnected from the power grid, it addresses the need to curb the degradation of the environment and the growing frequency of extreme weat

Arquipélago Mariana Caires   Brazil   The inspiration of a famous bossa nova by Tom Jobim, the undulating profile of the Mantiqueira Range spreads out in front of a house built on a steep hillside at an altitude of over 1,500 meters, where a solitary tree grew rooted to a rock formation.

Alexis Dornier   Indonesia   Located in the small village of Bukian, in the highlands of Payangan on the island of Bali, this tourist lodging stands out for its ring-shaped floor plan. The rooms are placed along the circular perimeter, facing the surrounding landscape. The livin

Studio Bright   Australia   The spatial and volumetric planning of this dwelling comes from an intimate engagement with the surroundings. Its design establishes a sequence of layers that go progressively from privacy to openness. A work of the Australian firm led by the archite

Flores & Prats   Spain   Less than ten kilometers from the center of Barcelona, Badalona was one of the region’s main industrial hubs, with an urban fabric in which factory buildings and workers’ housing always coexisted. Since the end of the 20th century, Badalona has been

OAM - Oficina d'Arquitectura a Mallorca   Spain   In Manacor, on an elongated plot with a slight slope, surrounded by pine and carob trees, stands this single-level house. The project adapts to the terrain by putting it on the high part of the site, substantially reducing earthworks and intervention

Arquitectura-G   Portugal   Part of an agricultural estate classified as a ‘quinta de recreio,’ the building was abandoned for decades. It originally contained a winery and accommodations of people working on the property. It was broken up into various constructions connected b

APV Arquitectura para vivir   Mexico   Drawing inspiration from the fluid form of a water droplet, Casas Xcunya pursues a harmonic coexistence with nature, in contrast with the accelerated urban expansion of Mérida, the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán. Water is the centerpiece of

O Arquitectura   Spain   The neighborhood known as that of the ‘cheap houses’ was built in Lodosa in the 1950s. These were simple, single-level dwellings with a backyard that followed a functional and economical logic. The plot of this project is located at the corner of one

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

HW Studio   Mexico   This house addresses the climate of Puerto Vallarta on Mexico’s Pacific coast, where sunshine and humidity dominate one’s days and shade is a valuable asset, a refuge. From the start, the idea was for the dwelling, built with concrete, to embody the

Valdivieso Arquitectos   Spain   In the Sierra de Gúdar, Alcalá de la Selva (Teruel), an architectural intervention has enlarged the social area of a country house, annexing a pavilion – intended as an auxiliary space – that deliberately contrasts with its surroundings. Its design a

Bernat Llauradó - tallerdarquitectura   Spain   In the municipality of Vilopriu – in Girona province, in the comarca of Baix Empordà – stands this 146-square-meter house designed on the basis of a succession of roofs recalling a butterfly because of their V-shaped roofs. The sloping planes varying

Infraestudio   Cuba   West of Havana, Cuba, in the municipality of Artemisa, this residence is located on a cliff. It maintains the dimensions and essential elements of a preexisting house: a perimeter of 14 x 14 meters and a gable roof. With a total area of 366 square me

Jorge Sainz   “Paradise is a promise as well as a memory.” That’s the closing line of this beautiful book, erudite but also full of charm and humor, in the finest English tradition of knowledge dissemination. Joseph Rykwert (1926-2024) was born in Warsaw but is on

This photographic project by Andrea Ferro documents the last remaining “bubble houses” of Dakar, Senegal — the result of a remarkable season of architectural experimentation between the 1950s and 1970s, born at the intersection of urgent housing

Miguel Fernández-Galiano   Through Edmund Sumner’s lens and Jonathan Bell’s edition, this book gathers 26 houses that, organized in four typological chapters, offer a fragmented portrait of the Mexican residential architecture of the last ten years. The projects, most built by

Fernando Pérez Oyarzún   The term ‘centralized composition’ brings memories of reading Wittkower’s Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism as a student. How ideas travel is astonishing: in this case, architectural theories of the Renaissance were retrieved in the amb

Luis Lope de Toledo   What happens when an architect sets out to design without a preliminary scheme, and speaks with the builder only via WhatsApp? Manuel Ocaña transforms what could have been a minor anecdote – turning a pigsty into a family room – into a deep, non-comp

Alejandra Galache   On the wooded hills of Saint-Cloud, outside Paris, stands a distinctive house. Dominique Boudet, editor-in-chief of Le Moniteur, tasked OMA in 1984 to build a home with conditions stipulated by his wife, Lydie Dall’Ava, who wanted bespoke spaces for

For Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño, founders of the Barcelona studio TAKK and professors at Columbia University, the future harbors many uncertainties, which they have decided to face from an optimistic and propositive perspective. Faced with m

This selection offers a tour of twelve houses we have published in 2024 that tackle the matter of domestic space through different strategies. Varying in dimensions, the dwellings insert themselves into their contexts by relating with their surroundi

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature-length film, The Room Next Door premiered at the 81st Venice Film Festival, where it received a 17-minute ovation. Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel What Are You Going Through, it tells the story of tw

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

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

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

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

The tough experience of lockdown during the pandemic has made us reflect on the design of domestic space, and particularly on its connection with the outdoors. Inserted in built-up urban spaces, located in sprawling suburban areas, or embedded in nat

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

AD   Katherine McLaughlin   Just 35 minutes from Manhattan, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Socrates Zaferiou House sits on 2.5 private acres within Clausland Mountain Park in Blauvelt, New York. “It’s a complete escape from our New York City life, so it’s meant to be a decompression,” Sa

BBC   Wael Hussein   Yolande Knell   El plan de las autoridades, que ya han retirado la mayoría de estas estructuras, ha recibido críticas por parte de quienes las consideran un símbolo cultural y urbano…

Japan Today   Last year Japan’s Serendix Partners caught our eye with its concept for spherical, 3D-printed houses. Not only do they have a stylish, futuristic appeal, Serendix wants them to be low-priced enough to make the cost of buying their 3D-printed houses c

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

Bloomberg    Alexandra Lange   On Nov. 17, the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, took a new name: the Edith Farnsworth House. This five-letter change marks a small but significant gesture in the decades-long effort to tell the story of one of America’s most famous modern homes,

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

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,

Philip Jodidio   Homes for our Time

Various authors   Lima  2022  
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú   - 188 Pages 

Philip Jodidio   Contemporary Houses around the World

Fernanda Canales   Privacidad en un mundo compartido

Kenneth Frampton Michael Webb   A Laboratory for Living

Cristina Rodríguez de Acuña   Madrid  2020  
Ediciones Asimétricas   - 142 Pages 

Carlos Solé Bravo   El sueño de la casa tecnológica

Nicholas Olsberg   Berlin  2019  
Hatje Cantz   - 292 Pages 

Xavier Guzmán Urbiola Victor Jiménez Toyo Ito   México  2014  
RM   - 127 Pages 

Fernando Távora   Oporto  2013  
Universidade do Porto  

Peter Eisenman   Nueva York  2003  
The Monacelli Press   - 303 Pages