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

JKMM   Finland   The stadium is located in the center of the Tammela district of the Finnish city of Tampere, on the site of a 1930s football field. The facilities were much deteriorated. The decision was made to build anew on the same site and densify the urban area

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

MARS Architectes   France   Taking up a city block on Boulevard Poniatowski in Paris, this social housing development is clearly inserted into its homogenous urban context. The immediate surroundings are characterized by a uniform system for arranging the facades: a horizontal

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

GMGA – Giuseppe Maria Genco architetto   Italy   In Rome's Esquilino neighborhood, within a basement characterized by the spatial complexity typical of the urban fabric, the Thermae residential project offers a contemporary reinterpretation of ancient thermal baths. The intervention stemmed from a

ba-rro   Spain   DZR is the transformation of an industrial facility in Madrid's Carabanchel district into a 174 m² home that explores new ways of living. The project began with a former car wash, creating a hybrid space where domestic uses coexist with activities th

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

Ignacio Olite Koldo Fernández Gaztelu Made.V Arquitectos   Spain   The winning proposal in the competition to build 80 social housing units in Soria is based on a simple but meaningful image: trucks numbering 26, the exact number needed to transport the prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels that make up

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...

EXPERIMENTAL   Portugal   In a valley located close to the city, twin dwellings pour out all their spaces onto outsized platforms from which one can contemplate and enjoy highly privileged views...

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

Studio Arthur Casas   Brazil   The Ibaté building is located on a corner lot in the Vila Nova Conceição neighborhood of São Paulo, an area that acts as a transition zone between a high-density urban hub and a lower-density, quieter residential neighborhood. This hybrid nature of t

Ismael Medina Manzano   Spain   The renovation of this 60 m² apartment, located on the outskirts of San Sebastián and built in 1966, is tackled as an architectural experiment that challenges established lines of domestic logic. The project investigates new ways of living based on t

Carbajo Barrios   Spain   Foxos is a beach located south of A Lanzada, in the municipality of Sanxenxo, Pontevedra. It is an enclave of great environmental and scenic value, defined by a cliff-lined coastline crowned by gentle hills that form a unique natural environment. Thi

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

ZAO / Zhang Ke Architecture Office   China   In one of the traditional neighborhoods that surround the Forbidden City, a residential complex has undergone renovation in accordance with a cautious strategy to curb gentrification. As in another siheyuan in the same alley, only about two-thirds of

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.

Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekt*innen   Switzerland   This elongated apartment building has been developed by the studio as a prototype of the idea of sufficiency. With typologies of scale ranging from S to XL, the units are designed for one or two residents and organized as two-story lofts with minimum

Caruso St John Architects   Netherlands   With the conversion of the Veemgebouw, an old industrial warehouse on the former Philips industrial site becomes a mixed urban building with market, parking, offices, and apartments, within the new masterplan to regenerate Eindhoven’s Strijp S distri

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

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

Andrea Bajani   Barcelona  2022  
Anagrama   - 288 Pages 

Philip Jodidio   Homes for our Time

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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