HW Studio   Mexico   The Shi House sits on the slope of a ravine and the final part of its slab floats lightly over it, held up by earth-covered pilings. It is composed of a vertical stone element harboring the stairs and some horizontal circulation elements; and a white

Nua arquitectures   Spain   Located at the highest point of an agricultural property given over to the growing of olive and almond trees, near the Monastery of Santes Creus in Tarragona province’s comarca of Alt Camp, a small stone shelter is part of an ensemble of isolated roo

fala   Portugal   The Portuguese firm fala – founded in 2013 by Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, and Ahmed Belkhodja— has turned a warehouse and offices into a house of many faces. On a long narrow plot located in a largely abandoned industrial zone, it arises from

gurea   Spain   This dwelling in Navajeda – a Cantabrian village belonging to the municipality of Entrambasaguas, in the comarca of Trasmieta – is a work of Darío Cobo Calvo (gurea | arquitectura cooperativa). The simple compact volume’s facade is wrapped with panel

O Arquitectura   Spain   In the 1950s, in the Navarrese town of Lododa, a new neighborhood went up consisting of simple one-level dwellings with backyards. Casa O reformulates this typology with a contemporary language. Its facade preserves the existing composition. The ridg

Schneider Lengauer Pühringer   Austria   Though it is only a 19th-century addition, the tower of the castle of Hagenberg – with four bulbous pinnacles at the corners of its roof – gives the Austrian village its characteristic image, and the iconic profile of this vertical structure has even

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The island of Gotland, where this vacation home has been built, is the least populated county in the country, and known internationally for its diverse animal and plant life. The house sits at the edge of an open landscape, slightly elevated on a for

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The site is on an island on the west coast of Sweden, and has a unique position perched on a steep mountain rock located close to the highest point in the landscape. It offers wide and open views over the sea and the horizon. The client wanted two ho

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The setting is the Stockholm archipelago, on a natural ground sloping gently down to the sea, mostly open with a few trees and bushes. Unlike other projects on sites without car access from the mainland, this one was relatively easy to reach also wit

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The site is located on the southwest coast of Sweden, in an old agricultural area gently sloping down towards the sea. In the midst of a vast and open cultivated landscape, this plot constitutes an exception as it is planted with many different trees

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The client wanted a garden, and decided to leave an apartment in downtown Stockholm for a home on the Mälaren lakefront. In response to this desire, the house proposed becomes part of the vegetation by wrapping it in a trellis for vines and seven dif

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   The single-family house in Stocksund, a residential area on the outskirts of Stockholm, is a long and thin block with cut-outs for light, double-heights, and a roof terrace. Through its position on the site, placed perpendicular to the property entra

Tham & Videgård   Sweden   This vacation home on the island of Gotland, in the Baltic Sea, is built on a slight ridge that marks the location of the coastline a thousand years ago. In relation to the open and expansive landscape, the building seems more like a low wall built a

Norm Architects   Denmark   Facing the Kattegat strait, which links the Baltic to the North Sea, this cedar-clad house presents gabled green roofs, coated with several Sedum species, that change color with the seasons, in mimicry with the environment. Referencing Denmark’s trad

Selgascano Diego Cano-Lasso   United States   In Mount Washington, a suburb in the hills of northeast Los Angeles, this house with impressive views of downtown LA adapts to the very steep lot it sits on, which faces southwest, making it necessary to shield the house against strong sunlight. Tube

Linazasoro & Sánchez Arquitectura   Spain   This 370-square-meter building is thought out as a typical dwelling in the town, seeking to blend with the surroundings through a re-reading of vernacular tradition. Its earthy walls have a lime mortar texture with a Tyrolean finish, and the only per

Malvina Zayat   Argentina   In Salsipuedes, located 30 kilometers from Córdoba, Argentina, this house immersed in nature adapts to a steep slope. Containing an area of 106 square meters, the prism seems to levitate over the mountain. The house is organized linearly within a spa

Lucio Muniain   Mexico   Next to La Loma Country Club, in the Mexican city of San Luis Potosí, stands this two-floor house sculpted in exposed concrete. With an area of 800-square-meters, the composition of volumes generates a play of lights and shadows at different heights

Núñez Ribot Arquitectos   Spain   A work of the Madrid firm led by Teodoro Núñez and Almudena Ribot, the design of this house in Madrid’s Aravaca neighborhood began with a desire to take advantage of the space occupied by an underused paddle tennis court underground, which became the

Arquitecturia Josep Camps Olga Felip   Spain   An abandoned house integrated into its environs has been refurbished by occupying the ruin and expanding a series of interwoven interior spaces and gardens. Generating a counterpoint with the tower of the neighboring house, the stone, mud, and concre

Schaum/Shieh   United States   Nestled on a slope of the Allegheny Mountains, which are part of the Appalachian range, in the Shenandoah Valley, this house and retreat with its elongated plan and its forms seeks to mirror the gentle topography of the site. A work of the American

Ripoll Tizón Estudio de Arquitectura   Spain   With breathtaking views of the bay of Palma, this terraced house is located in the upper part of the plot, adapting to the sloping topography of the land through different levels. Three courtyards are introduced in the facade as transitional spaces b

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   Chile   The village of Santa Lucía Alto, in the region of Yungay, is surrounded by fertile plains and high peaks. One of its lush forests in the foothills of the Andes Mountains becomes the site for his house-studio, an ambitious project of over 2,400m² that

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,

The Economist   Abatch of new houses across California is selling unusually fast. In the past two months, 82 have been snapped up, and the waiting list is 1,000 long. That demand should, though, soon be satisfied—for, while it can take weeks to put up a conventional

Alejandro Cervilla García   In 1996, Editorial Munilla Lería published one of the first monographs on the work of Alberto Campo Baeza. Compact and practical in format (14x20 centimeters) and published in black and white, its nearly 250 pages summarized the first years of the ar

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

El País   Daniel Díez Martínez   Para el ruso Melnikov, su vivienda se convirtió en su cárcel. Philip Johnson exhibió su día a día en la Glass House y Le Corbusier eligió para él la cabaña más pequeña que jamás había diseñado. El edificio de viviendas sociales de El Ruedo (Madrid, 1

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The walls of the garden enclose a project of individual happiness. Growing one’s own orchard and tending one’s own garden are metaphors of the abandonment of collective passion; and the tamed, intimate nature of the garden is an acceptable substitute

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Accustomed to thinking of the family house as a consumer unit, we often forget about its essential role as a unit of production. Essential in the rural world, where agricultural exploitation and the residence are inseparable, and no less important in

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If there is a domestic area where etiquette reigns, surely it is the dining room. Table manners are just the basic catechism of an elaborate theology of food and eating. Habits and rituals intertwine to weave a dense fabric of identities and differen

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In the beginning was the fire: a single fire around which the family gathered and the house was built. When the hearth was multiplied and divided, the house fragmented into individual fires warming bodies, heating water, and transforming foods. The c

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Associated with the bedroom in a shared sphere of secluded intimacy, the bathroom wavers between hygiene and pleasure. The wellbeing that bodily regeneration gives fuses with the warm sensuality of the water that moistens the skin, opens up the pores

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Bedroom, hub of intimacy, protective shell of the seed, place for terms and principles, for consummations and consumptions. Children and projects are conceived here, the frontiers of dreams and life are crossed. Up to quite recently, here one was bor

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  
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