Architecture: Research Guide

From the top of El Morro hill, this house acts as a suspended lookout, peering over the trees and rocks to capture the majestic view of the entire Zapallar bay in a single gesture.

"Raconte-moi un secret" is an interactive sound installation that invites the public to share and listen to anonymous confessions, transforming individual experiences into a collective, ever-evolving soundscape.

Meadow House presented us with an opportunity to work within the exceptional Santa Lucia Preserve in the Carmel Valley. Both the site and brief paved the way for a challenging and, ultimately, deeply rewarding process.

TreeBOX – Casa sull'Albero, designed by Studio Officina82, is part of Selucente, an innovative hospitality project centered on the recovery of the alpine hamlet of Alpisella in the Ligurian-Piedmontese Alps.

Coastal is an inspiring exploration of Flonda’s most exquisite high-end and boutique homes where architecture, design, and the spirit of the sea come together. Through stunning photography and captivating storytelling, the book reveals how light, texture, and craftsmanship define modern coastal Ilving From sun-washed beachfront estates in Naples to serene retreats along the Gulf and Atlantic shores, each home reflects a distinct interpretation of coastal elegance that is rooted in its surroundings yet elevated by sophisticated design. Featuring projects by visionary architects and designers, Coastal highlights spaces that blur the lines between indoors and out, creating an effortless dialo..

This is a book about the amenity that we call streets and how we choose to use them to move about. What makes the street so vitally important today is that it has the capacity to allow for many different modalities of travel to coexist in the public space instead of being dominated by any single mode of travel. Glideology, an invented word, is meant to evoke memories of gliding downhill on your bicycle as a child or sledding down a hill in the winter. Glideology represents an optimistic outlook for traffic for the near future. It anticipates that common-sense

For millions of displaced children and young people, education unfolds amid conditions of forced mobility, administrative uncertainty, and prolonged precarity. Schools situated in borderlands, refugee settlements, and sites of climate-induced displacement therefore operate as more than educational facilities. They become spatial infrastructures that negotiate the contradictory demands of emergency and continuity, offering environments where learning persists despite the instability of legal status, living conditions, and the very feeling of being at home.

The restoration of the Breuer building follows a light-touch approach, preserving defining features while introducing subtle upgrades to meet Sotheby's functional and operational needs while honoring Marcel Breuer's original design. Each found space is scrutinized and re-evaluated for its architectural and programmatic value, shaping an experience of the building that honors both continuity and transformation. The project underscores the role of preservation in safeguarding a cultural landmark while ushering it into its next era.

An architecture degree provides the foundations of the discipline, but the transition into professional practice often extends well beyond the classroom. Building experience, developing a portfolio, and navigating the realities of architectural offices are challenges that many graduates face in their first years of practice.

The Avlí Houses (Avlí: Αυλή = courtyard) reinterpret the archetype of the Cypriot courtyard house, creating a contemporary multi-generational summer retreat where shared family life and individual privacy coexist around a common outdoor heart.

The core concept of Mac Casa is a liberated living environment that seamlessly blurs the boundaries between the interior and exterior. It is a space where vegetation weaves through the architecture, and varying floor elevations emulate the natural topography, enhancing the spatial experience of movement and daily life. Here, human routines and nature coexist harmoniously beneath a vast, sweeping canopy of shade.

In villages across Rajasthan, houses are traditionally shaped around courtyards, built to absorb social life during festivals and family gatherings, while also offering protection from heat, dust, and constant public visibility. These homes are rarely static. They expand and contract with occupation, shifting between intense communal use and private life. It is within this layered condition of climate, community, and absence that House Between Walls in Rewatra finds its ground.

Architecture across Latin America this month reflects a growing emphasis on adaptation, whether responding to environmental risks, rethinking cultural institutions, or extending the life of existing buildings. Recent developments reveal a regional conversation shaped by resilience, heritage, and public space, where architecture is increasingly understood as part of broader urban, social, and environmental systems. From the aftermath of major earthquakes in Venezuela to the debate surrounding Ecuador's future National Museum, the month's stories highlight how design is intertwined with questions of identity, civic life, and long-term sustainability.

As part of the official programme for Barcelona as the UNESCO-UIA World Capital of Architecture, the Jardí Botànic de Barcelona is hosting "Parlour Gardens: Dreams from the Rooftop," a display of ceramic installations proposing a journey through landscape architecture. Curated by Marina Cervera (Barcelona International Landscape Biennial, CEO of NablaBCN), James Hayter (former president of IFLA, Oxigen), and José Luis Cortés (former president of the UIA), the exhibition marks a century since the 1926 invention of the jardinets de saló (living room or parlour gardens), miniature ceramic landscape worlds created originally by Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí, Llorenç Artigas, and Raoul Dufy. ..

Contemporary housing architecture faces the pressing demands of the global housing deficit and growing urban populations. In architectural practice, we see recurring experimentation with new forms of collective living, taking on the task of offering spaces for personal, family, and community development. The six unbuilt projects presented here show us different facets of the decision to densify: the relationship with pre-existing and planned nature, the availability of urban or suburban land, the development of complementary intermediate spaces that support collective life and ease the experience of density, the replicability of densification models, and the relationship with the neighborhoo..

Beyond the structural grids lies a layer of design that dictates how a room feels the moment someone crosses the threshold. Recorded live at Milan Design Week 2026 in partnership with INDX|GLOBAL, the final episode of the Room For Dreams podcast covers the unseen atmospheric energy that gives architecture its emotional weight.

In the early summer of 2026, we were invited by the organizers of 2026 Foshan Internatioanl Cultural & Creative Week to create an art installation for this grand event. At the very beginning of the conceptual stage, we immersed ourselves deeply in the everyday life of local Cantonese people, hoping to find an everyday object that best captures the distinctive character of local folk life. In the end, our gaze settled on the red plastic stools.

The adaptive reuse of the NYMA Water Tower demonstrates how industrial heritage can be transformed into a vibrant destination while preserving its unique historical identity. Once an essential part of the former NYMA artificial silk factory, the tower has been reimagined as a public landmark that brings together hospitality, culture, and community. Today, it accommodates a restaurant, flexible meeting spaces, and a panoramic bar, creating a place for gathering, creativity, and social interaction.

The recently opened David Geffen Galleries at LACMA are the result of more than a decade of effort across many fronts: the city, the county, the public, the architect, the engineers, the general contractor, and the many builders involved in translating an ambitious and visionary design into built form. The project has also been subject to unusually intense scrutiny, with responses ranging from admiration for its meticulous construction and architectural ambition to criticism of its scale, cost, concrete mass, and engineering complexity in earthquake-prone Los Angeles. Whatever one's position, the building remains an exceptionally sophisticated case study in how architecture is negotiated thr..

In Maida Hill, North Paddington, Studio Weave has completed a distinctive building: a small public toilet pavilion composed of reclaimed stone taken from a demolished office building at Broadgate in the City of London. Material that once formed the cladding of a corporate headquarters has been recut and assembled as the structure of a modest civic building serving a neighborhood market. Stone that has effectively traveled from the financial district to a local square.

The Australian Institute of Architects has announced "Lived In" as Australia's official contribution to the 20th Venice Architecture Biennale, to be held in Venice, Italy, from May 8 to November 21, 2027. Developed by Kerstin Thompson, Maryam Gusheh, Lee-Anne Khor, and Louise Wright of Monash Urban Lab at Monash University, the exhibition is based on the ongoing Housing Atlas of Australia research initiative. Presented in response to the Biennale's theme, Do Architecture – For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality, curated by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, the exhibition will present a selection of Australian multi-dwelling housing projects through drawings, photographs, film, and d..

Sawtooth House transforms a Victorian terrace in Kingston upon Thames through the replacement of an outdated rear extension with a contemporary addition inspired by the town's industrial heritage. Rather than replicating the language of the existing house, Francesco Pierazzi Architects reinterpreted the distinctive sawtooth roof profile of Kingston's former manufacturing buildings to create a new architectural identity rooted in place.

This week was marked by recognition and major announcements for the cultural industry. Amid international reports of both deliberate and natural destruction, UNESCO added 25 new sites of Outstanding Universal Value to its World Heritage List, protecting a diverse range of places that includes funerary landscapes and landmark works of modern architecture. Beyond heritage, contemporary architectural practice also received renewed recognition through Alejandro Aravena and Smiljan Radić, while new developments were announced for cultural projects across the United Arab Emirates, Ecuador, China, India, and the United States. Recent updates include the restoration of a landmark cinema in Los Ange..

In a slim volume with a yellow-edged cover, recently published by the Porto-based imprint Circo de Ideias, the architect Paulo Martins Barata (a founding partner of Promontório) makes a deceptively bold claim that the architecture produced in Europe since the Great Recession belongs to neither of the two camps that structured the twentieth century's fiercest disciplinary debate.

The Bring Up Midori Children's Development Center reimagines therapeutic architecture as a landscape of discovery, where children with developmental disabilities are invited to engage with the world through play. Rather than treating sensory differences as something to be managed, the project embraces them as a source of curiosity, transforming everyday movement into opportunities for exploration and growth.

This project is a small hideaway house harmoniously integrated into its natural surroundings of woods and streams. The location, just an hour away from Seoul, offers a unique opportunity to experience the change of lights and views in four different seasons.

The wooden wall that announces the main entrance and directs the gaze toward the river folds and unfolds to become the roof projecting toward the Bío-Bío landscape, establishing a continuous architectural gesture that articulates the experience of arrival and stay.

In the suburbs of Santiago de Querétaro, within an increasingly dense residential context, Casa Refugio was conceived as a home that prioritizes intimacy, flexibility, and family life. From the outside, the house presents itself as a contained, almost hermetic volume, shielding its interior views and establishing an atmosphere of calm from the very first approach.

Casa Flow was born from the desire to create a free, fluid architecture in constant dialogue with the landscape. The project stems from the idea that a house should not dictate a way of living, but rather offer the freedom for its inhabitants to shape their own experiences. Located in Porto Feliz, the residence follows the natural contours of the site, establishing a quiet connection with the horizon and its surroundings.

Set within the productive landscape of a certified organic farm in Petaluma, the Live Oak Farm Pavilion emerges as a quiet framework for community life. Conceived as a shared gathering space, the structure supports the rhythms of the farm: education, cultivation, celebration, and daily exchange.