Architecture

Casa Bernal

Issue 20, Mexico, Queretaro

De Cotiis

Issue 20, Italy, Venice

HOTEL MARTEL

Architecture, France, Living In, Paris

Studio Mumbai

India, Issue 14, Mumbai

Keeping Toward the Light

Baleric Islands, Issue 14, Mallorca, Spain

VILLA RA

Calabria, Italy, Living In

VVD II RESIDENCE

Antwerp, Belgium, Living In

The Krane

Copenhagen, Denmark, Issue 13

LIVING IN

Living In, Openhouse Studio

Frey House II

Issue 13, Palm Springs, United States

Memory and Modernism

Croix, France, Issue 13

Living Places

Barcelona, Brand Story, Spain

Palehua House

Hawaii, Issue 13

Casa das Canoas

Max Cetto

Issue 13, Mexico, Mexico City

Pedro Reyes & Carla Fernández

Issue 13, Mexico City

Axel Vervoordt

Antwerp, Belgium, Issue 13

Isla Lebe

Chile, Issue 12

I-House

Japan, Web Story

Villa Empain

Belgium, Brussels, Issue 12

Heaven Knows

Architecture, Issue 12, Madrid, Spain

Kandinsky/Klee House

Dessau, Germany, Issue 12

The Hidden Dimension

Issue 12, Mexico, Mexico City

Finding Beauty In The Unadorned Wall

England, Gloucestershire, Issue 12

A Summer Afternoon in the Pavilion of Dreams

Girona, Issue 12, Olot

The Pebble and the Round Pond

Issue 12, Madrid, Spain

Refreshing Glance for a Contemporary Paradise

Barcelona, Editorial, Issue 12, Spain

Casa Poli

Chile, Issue 11

Frugal Luxury at La Fábrica

Barcelona, Editorial, Issue 11, Spain

George Nakashima Woodworkers

Issue 10, Pennsylvania

Pierre Jeanneret

Chandigarh, India, Issue 11

James Goldstein’s Ever-Expanding World

Issue 11, Los Angeles, USA

Van Doesburg Studio-House

France, Issue 10, Paris

César Manrique

Issue 10, Lanzarote, Spain

A Modernist Masterpiece Opens Up

Issue 10, Pennsylvania, USA

Els Comellars

Issue 5, Mallorca, Spain

Many Lives Under One Roof

Issue 7, Los Angeles, USA

At Home With Mies Talks & Dinner

Between the Rocks

Issue 9, Mexico

A house of light and history

Brno, Czech Republic, Issue 8

Breaking the Boundaries of Convention

Editorial, Issue 8, Solo Houses, Spain, Teruel

At Home With Mies

Barcelona, Openhouse Studio, Web Story

Masseria Moroseta

Issue 7, Italy, Puglia

Solo Houses

Editorial, Issue 5, Solo Houses, Spain, Teruel

Reality and Desire

Editorial, Issue 7, Madrid, Spain

More Than a House

Barcelona, Issue 6, Spain

Cap Moderne

France, Issue 6

Casa Wabi

Issue 5, Mexico

A House for my Family

Australia, Issue 4, Sydney

The home of Philip Johnson

Connecticut, Issue 2, United States

In residence at Can Lis

Baleric Islands, Issue 3, Mallorca, Spain

La Ricarda

Barcelona, Issue 1, Spain

Architecture

A flower amidst the rubble

While the pool could be considered the true hero of the space, the way the entire project has evolved has made Casa Bernal a truly admirable creation.

Architecture is a living thing

Murano glass chandeliers, decorated ceiling beams and terrazzo floors, elements that are in the private residence of the De Cotiis family.

Economies of Art and Life

Hotel Martel has been restored and conserved by its owner, Eric Touchaleaume, being the most complete example of Mallet-Stevens’ residential work.

The Art of Consideration

Jazz is likely to be the most apt metaphor in relationship to Bijoy Jain’s work. Jazz is interactive and improvised.

At Potter's House

Talking with Luciano is itself like being in a garden; there are points that catch one’s imagination and vibrant connections; afterwards, ideas continue to grow.

A Modern Approach to Rural Dwelling

Atop the rugged cliff sides of the Calabrian coast, a contemporary structure roots firmly to the sun-baked dirt.

A Sanctuary and a Refuge —a Place Where Time Stands Still

Like a physician swearing the Hippocratic Oath, architect Vincent Van Duysen takes his role in creating spaces very seriously.

Post-industrial Luxury

The Krane, a one-room hotel and spa in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn, epitomises the concept of a hideaway.

Modern Masterpieces of Residential Architecture

Our first book, edited in collaboration with gestalten, is the outcome of curatorial research into thirty homes with architecture typified by its strong emotional appeal.

Thinking on the Ledge

In the shadowed interior, barely visible as an irregularly curved silhouette, but instantly recognizable, is the iconic rock, around which the house was built.

Villa Cavrois

Home is more than a place that provides shelter. It’s a private space where life finds its personal expression.

Simon Architecture Prize

Simon opens the call for the Third Edition of “Living Places, Simon Architecture Prize”.

Vladimir Ossipoff and Hawaiian Modernism

Chris Mottalini traveled to Honolulu to shoot the work of Vladimir Ossipoff, the foremost practitioner of Hawaiian Modernism, and visited the architect’s most celebrated buildings.

Quintessence of the Brazilian House

Late morning of October. Blue sky and sweaty weather typical of the beginning of the summer in Rio de Janeiro.

Life of the Rocks

By 1949, Max Cetto had become famous in Mexico and was known affectionately as “El Hombre del Pedregal”. He had built and lived in the first house in Pedregal.

A Space to be Read

Seen from the street, the house of fashion designer Carla Fernández and artist-architect Pedro Reyes appears to have descended from the skies.

How the Story of a Style Evolves

We share a weekend with Axel Vervoordt to discuss travel, collecting and style.

An Endemic Marker in the Landscape

A journey to Chile's Chiloé Archipelago to discover the wonderful project of Guillermo Acuña in Isla Lebe.

A vision of mutual understanding through cultural exchanges among the people of Japan and the world.

East, West, Time Machine

The gardener and I greet each other. The leaves that he prunes fall on top of and in between the pebbles. Many times before, he has seen the impressive beauty of Villa Empain.

Fernando Higueras

Man has sought refuge below ground throughout history, from prehistoric caves as protection from the dangers of the natural world.

Bauhaus Dessau

The East German town of Dessau seems unassuming at first glance.

Manuel Cervantes

With the invention of the concept of a house and studio, a new approach to indoor living emerged.

John Pawson

Minimalism is a term that is often misconstrued in this day and age.

RCR

The second day of the RCR Summer Workshop begins with a project review to a group of outstanding experts: Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta.

Fernando Caruncho

As I walk, I heed the spherical pattern traced on the ground…my mind is engrossed in circular trains of thought…

Not far from Barcelona, by the Catalan village of Sant Feliu de Codines, a unique family home lies over ancient hills and pine tree forests.

On the Verge of Plunging into the Blue Yonder

After several months coordinating my visit to Casa Poli, I meet up with Mauricio Pezo and Sofía Von Ellrichshausen at Casa Cien, where they live and work.

Ricardo Bofill found this mighty building in 1973 and transformed it into both a family home and the headquarters of the Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura.

The Soul of a Woodshop

George Nakashima, the preeminent American designer and master craftsman, made furniture out of a philosophical and spiritual reverence for trees.

Chandigarh Belongs to Him

It is his cousin that usually takes the credit for this city, but immersing yourself in the life here you realise it is Jeanneret to whom the city really belongs.

If there was ever a man acclimated to construction, it’s Goldstein. For forty years, almost half his life, he’s been surrounded by it.

Coup de coeur

While relaxing from an intense year of work, Daniëlle van Ark & Thomas Raat immersed themselves into the world of Dutch artists Theo van Doesburg & his wife Nelly van Moorsel, founders of this house turned artistic residency.

An Uneasy Nature

In the conviction of beauty’s power and the importance of aesthetics in the social cultures, his art interventions represented a whole new turning point on Lanzarote.

The Margaret Esherick House was built by an American master, and its splendor cannot be understated. A recent renovation and gracious new owners have once again made it a welcome destination.

John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin

A towering and meditative villa nesting amongst the trees yet striking in contrast to the backdrop of the sky, it was designed and built by John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin.

Richard Neutra’s VDL House

Being handed the keys to a Modernist architectural icon is no easy feat for any mustering design enthusiast.

Launch of Issue No. 9

Openhouse celebrated the launch of issue Nº9 with a private dinner and hold a series of talks with great names in architecture, art, and design.

Casa Pedregal

When Barragán first walked into El Pedregal, a barren land of volcanic rocks in the suburbs of Mexico City, a utopia came to mind.

Villa Tugendhat of Mies van der Rohe

It’s June in Brno and we are outside the Villa Tugendhat, Mies van der Rohe’s modernist house in the leafy neighbourhood of Èerná Pole, not far from the centre of town.

Solo Office

Ideas are intangible. They have led us to design cities and establish ways of life from the beginning of time.

Exhibition by Openhouse & USM

Openhouse together with USM transformed the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe into a house.