Mexico

Boca de Agua by Frida Escobedo

Bacalar, Issue 22, Mexico

Memoria y Reinvención

Issue 21, Mexico, Mexico City

Ricardo Vainer

Brand Story, Issue 21, Mexico, Mexico City

Pabellón de la Reserva

Mexico, Salazar

Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca 780, Hemaa

Mexico, Mexico City, Web Story

Openhouse + Toogood

Brand Story, Issue 21, Mexico, Mexico City

Casa Copas

Issue 21, Mexico, Valle de Bravo

From the borders of Hípico San Ramón to Whistlejacket

avandaro, Mexico, Valle de Bravo, Web Story

Casa Bernal

Issue 20, Mexico, Queretaro

Casa Monte

Issue 20, Mexico, Oaxaca

Estudio Iturbide

Issue 20, Mexico, Mexico City

Openhouse at Habitación 116

Issue 19, Mexico, Mexico City, Web Story

Casa Vagantes

Issue 19, Merida, Mexico

Los Durmientes

Issue 19, Mexico, Valle de Bravo

Casa Covarrubias

Issue 19, Mexico, Mexico City

Villa Petricor

Mexico, Tulum, Web Story

A harmonic clash of modernity and tradition

Mexico, Mexico City, Web Story

Caravana Americana

Mexico, Mexico City, Web Story

Casa Puuc

Issue 18, Merida, Mexico

La Musa de las Flores

Mexico, Valle Bravo, Web Story

The Cloud of Colours

Mexico, Openhouse Studio

Días de Verano

Baja California Sur, Mexico, Web Story

Galopina Casa Silvestre

Merida, Mexico, Web Story

WithIn

Issue 17, Jalisco, Mexico

Terrestre

Issue 17, Mexico

La Metropolitana

Issue 17, Mexico

Finding Pani

Issue 16, Mexico, Mexico City

Little Houses by the Sea

Mexico, Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido

Thresholds

Issue 15, Mexico, Mexico City

Luis Barragán

Issue 15, Mexico, Mexico City

Héctor Barroso

Issue 15, Mexico, Mexico City

Casa Pedregal

Living In, Mexico, Mexico City

Placing Biography

Issue 14, Mexico, Mexico City

HACIENDA XUCÚ

Living In, Mexico, Xucú, Yucatán

Max Cetto

Issue 13, Mexico, Mexico City

Brutal Honesty

Editorial, Issue 13, Mexico, Mexico City

Pocoapoco

Mexico, Oaxaca, Web Story

The Hidden Dimension

Issue 12, Mexico, Mexico City

Between the Rocks

Issue 9, Mexico

Casa Wabi

Issue 5, Mexico

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Mexico

Upholding Architectural Dialogue

Boca de Agua, a series of houses that, rather than being built, seem suspended in a murmur among the treetops, beside the Bacalar lagoon.

A residence for designers in Mexico City

Andrew Trotter's studio and Habitación 116 breathe life into Parque Melchor Ocampo 38B, welcoming designers worldwide.

Inhabiting Sketch

Ricardo Vainer always yearned for his workspace to tell his story for him. An open book where what is revealed is present but not obvious.

Echoes of tranquility

Nestled within Reserva Santa Fe, Pabellón de la Reserva constitutes the most accurate example of a haven where the world stops

Embodying the city’s future

The Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca 780 seamlessly blends modern architecture and sustainability, creating a vibrant, imaginative urban space.

Crafting a rulebook

Recently, Openhouse Magazine launched their collaboration with Toogood: the Canvas Bag. “I wanted to create something that could fuse our worlds”

The sanctuary of truth

“I've never been in an architectural space that replicates the feeling of taking a nap in the shade of a tree and feeling the breeze”.

Monica Ledezma has pursued the structural excellence for the use of the space to achieve the settled goal for a perfect shelter for horses.

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.

A sculptural yet habitable space

Though it reads as a solid terra cotta mass, Casa Monte does not, ultimately, suggest a monolithic vision of Mexican design.

A tower for looking inward

Graciela, a famous Mexican photographer who recently held an exhibition at the Cartier Foundation. Mauricio is an iconic Mexican architect, and Manuel is a well-known sound artist.

Find our latest issue, No.19 in any of Habitación 116 stores, the only physical point of sale in Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende.

We Are Moments

It’s five o’clock on a Sunday afternoon as we return from visiting the ruins of Uxmal with Fernando Gómez Vivas, architect and, together with Gina Góngora, co-founder of Casa Vagantes.

A composition of light and shadow

There’s a secret something tucked within the walls of Los Durmientes. It defines the building’s junctions and forms, fosters tension and warmth.

Unforgotten City

“They were ‘modernizing’ as far as they were concerned,” says Rafael Rivera, co-founder, along with his partner Javier Claverie, of Habitación 116.

The calmness inside the wilderness

The construction in question is Villa Petricor, a seamless villa built around several existing tree clusters in 2022.

Círculo Mexicano

Círculo Mexicano exemplifies the importance of respecting a place’s original structure, which adds a value of history, reminiscence and personality.

Vernacular techniques for an outstanding design

The fourteenth edition of Caravana Americana takes place from February 17 to 19th in one of the most exciting moments of the calendar in Mexico City.

When space speaks

Casa Puuc, as you see it now, has been an aesthetical conversation between the architect Manuel Amabilis, Francisco Fernández Orozco and Claudia Fernández.

A cultivating dialogue

Gabriela Salazar ‘La Musa de las Flores’ began designing with flowers that mesmerized her while studying interior architecture in London.

Weekend Max Mara

The Fall Winter collection 2022 by Weekend Max Mara has been inspired by the central role that colors play in people’s everyday life.

by Studio Fenice

The different activities in the Días de Verano programme were structured around two main themes: Travel and Personality.

Yucatán Pride

For Elisa and Guillaume, owners of Casa Galopina, this place is not just a hotel: “It’s a home. A family project."

El Divisadero

El Divisadero, roughly translated as “a place to perceive”, is a 3-building compound in the countryside of Jalisco.

Building with rather than on

Terrestre is the latest edition of Puerto Escondido’s design moment.

Ciudad padre!

La Metropolitana applies business intelligence in its decision-making in a visionary way throughout its production chain.

Searching for a house of Mario Pani in Mexico City

For Mario Pani, the beauty of architecture was in the details.

Casa Volta, Casa Cosmos & Casa Liebre

Puerto Escondido has become a place to relax, where you can find yourself with enough time and space to read and enjoy endless walks on the beach.

by Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo has always lived between boundaries, either temporarily or permanently.

The Poetics of Pragmatism

Barragán cultivated his persona as a poet of light and shadow—the image that has come down to use through the decades.

From the secluded to the urban

Héctor generates proposals anchored in their surroundings using the resources specific to each place, whether they be the play of light and shade, vegetation or geographic features.

The Emotional Life of Architecture

This house does not have an intellectual effort; it is the emotional effort. This house, it is all about emotions.

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo House-Studio Museum

In Mexico City, Juan O'Gorman's 1930s Rivera-Kahlo House-Studio is almost an architectural proposal of how to live apart-together.

A Recomposition of Place

In the Yucatán Peninsula of southeastern Mexico, an age-old hacienda sits hidden within the confines of the sprawling jungle.

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.

Habitación 116

An interior architecture and furniture design studio, seeking to create perfect interiors by questioning uses and habits.

The research residency of Oaxaca

During my trip to Mexico, I visited Pocoapoco, the community of artists that Jessica Chrastil hosts in Oaxaca.

Manuel Cervantes

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

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.

A wall uniting art and community

A line drawn across a piece of paper turned Casa Wabi into a reality when Tadao Ando first sketched.

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