Casa em Melides Proves That Sabrab Architecture Understands the Alentejo Like...
Tucked into a landscape of centuries-old cork oak trees on the Alentejo coast, Casa em Melides by Sabrab Architecture is one of those rare...
The Best Books on Art and Design to Read This Summer
Summer is the one season that actually gives you permission to read slowly. Not the frantic, bookmark-everything-and-come-back-to-it reading we do the rest of the...
What Does Jenna McKnight’s “Design: Mid-Century Modern” Teach Us About the...
Just look around you, and you will notice that Mid-Century Modern design refuses to die, and Jenna McKnight's new guidebook explains exactly why. I...
Casa do Alpendre Is the Portuguese House That Turns Privacy Into...
Casa do Alpendre sits on a plot in Quinta da Coutada, Vila Franca de Xira, where no two buildings speak the same architectural language....
Art Deco: Why Penny Craswell’s New Book Belongs on Every Designer’s...
Art Deco announces itself in chrome edges, sunburst motifs, and skyscrapers that scrape at the clouds like they have somewhere urgent to be. Penny...
Villa VICUS Is the Slovak Family House That Proves Restraint Is...
Some houses announce themselves. Villa VICUS does the opposite—and that's precisely what makes it worth talking about. Completed in 2024 by Bratislava-based practice sebastian...
Atlas of Brutalist Architecture, the Book That Proves Concrete Was Never...
Concrete doesn't apologize. Neither does this book. The Atlas of Brutalist Architecture by Phaidon Editors arrived in 2020 as a 568-page, 5.6-pound argument that...
What Good Architecture Actually Looks Like: ARRCC’s Michele Rhoda on the...
Judging an architecture award is a strange kind of pressure test. Michele Rhoda, Principal at Cape Town-based studio ARRCC, walked into the WAN Awards...
This Prague Family House by edit! Shows What Minimalism Looks Like...
Minimalism gets misused constantly. Architects slap flat roofs on boxy volumes, strip interiors to bare concrete, and call it restraint. What studio edit! delivered...
100 Iconic Buildings to See Before You Die: The Architecture Book...
Honestly, travel and architecture books come and go. Most of them promise the world and deliver a recycled slideshow of images you've already seen...
This Azorean House Renovation in Ponta Delgada Proves Restraint Is the...
Somewhere between preservation and reinvention, the most honest architecture happens. Atelier d'arquitectura Lopes da Costa understood this when they stepped into a pre-1951 house...
Villa Normanni Proves That Mediterranean Retreat Design Can Be Both Minimal...
There is a particular kind of design intelligence that refuses to shout. Villa Normanni, a newly completed Mediterranean retreat nestled in the olive groves...
















