Residential spaces conceived by architects in private practice address diverse social segments. By engaging with the substance of architecture, their formation and realization transcend individual cases, coalescing into a valuable experience.

Ediciones Pichoncito and the real estate firm Morada present their latest publication, titled David Mutal Arquitecto. The book features a photographic compendium of the work of one of the most prominent contemporary Peruvian architects, who has been recognized, among other honors, with the 2012 Hexágono de Plata for the Hotel B project and the 2015 Premio Casas from Grupo Editorial Cosas for the Residencial Santa Rosa project. The architect also received First Place in the Commercial Category at the Peruvian Architecture Biennial (2018).

Trama Magazine 151: Offices and Workspaces

In special locations where the landscape, topography, and views are fundamental, the design of these houses prioritizes these elements in their volumetric conception, siting, spatiality, and language. The work draws from local architectural traditions, materials, and construction systems, while maintaining a free-spirited approach to combining them—without hesitation—with contemporary and urban materials. This creates a unique interrelation between past and present, tradition and modernity, in harmony with the site. In terms of volumetry and morphology, the focus is on contextual harmony: an appropriate scale that does not compete with its surroundings, and a spatiality that embraces the landscape while allowing the gaze to flow toward both near and distant views. The organization is free from prejudices regarding conventional function and form, appealing to the contrast between opposites in elements, planes, and textures—smoothness and rusticity. At times, the work is dense with a variety of components, materials, and textures; at others, it is subtle, highlighting guiding elements; and in some cases, it resorts to the utmost spatial, constructive, and formal simplicity. Seeking energy and resource efficiency, the orientation of these solitary structures plays an important role in achieving climate-related comfort. Far from urban densities, explorations, recycling, and experimentation are amplified.

This Atlas aims to document and illustrate, through a graphic record, the characteristics of the landscape agents that compose the ecosystems of the Concepción region, their conservation status, and the fragmentation effects caused by various territorial transformation dynamics.

Ediciones Asimétricas, in collaboration with the Fernando Higueras Foundation, the ICO Foundation, the ICO Museum, and the Ministry of Public Works, has published the 2nd edition of the catalog Fernando Higueras. Desde el origen.

We live in a globalized world where, due to hyperconnectivity, information is stored and accumulated online without filter. But can there be something more behind an image than mere visual information? What distinguishes an image from a memory or a postcard? What can we convey through a graphic document? MOMENTUM emerges as a response to an atmosphere in which the image is reduced to a swift, ethereal tool that transmits superficial information. Conceived as a reaction to the incredible amount of unfiltered input and imagery we access online with a single click, it proposes opening a new dialogue and returning, for a moment, to carefully chosen personal references that allow for the illustration of an opinion on a specific subject, uncovering new conversations, viewpoints, or ways of thinking.

In this panoramic overview of the history of art and architecture during the 19th and 20th centuries, the site of interpretation is configured as an intersection of disparate motifs: a true network in which potential histories multiply, never able to reach a totalizing synthesis. History as a "problem" thus becomes a critical journey.

Manuel Corrada holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Chile. He is a researcher in logic, the metamathematics of set theory, Gödel’s methods, and Turing machines. He has published various scientific articles, as well as writings on design, perception, architecture, and book criticism.

Philip Ursprung, Dean of the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, presents two essays in this Docs: "Representation of Work" discusses, through authors such as Harun Farocki and Guy Debord, the invisibilization of alienated labor at the foundation of the current economic model, arguing that the discussion regarding the representation of work must also be a discussion about the role of architects in society.

Adrian Forty, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at UCL, presents two articles in this ARQDocs in which he precisely discusses, first, the use of the concept (and word) 'primitive' at different moments in the history of the discipline, and subsequently examines its dependency on the written word, extending and revising the conclusions of his book, 'Words and Buildings'.

Thomas Weaver is an architecture writer and editor. Having served as editor of AA Files for 10 years, he is currently a visiting professor at the Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design at TU Delft. In this ARQDocs volume, he presents the essays "Grimm the Modelmaker" and "Against Research."

Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza (1918–2000) was one of the most significant Spanish architects of the second half of the 20th century. He built such important works as the Aránzazu Basilica, the Banco de Bilbao and Torres Blancas buildings in Madrid, and the Palacio de Festivales in Santander.

This book serves as the most comprehensive testament to the world of Milton Barragán Dumet as an architect. His architecture, which addresses timeless human themes, is considered among the most significant in Ecuador and Latin America. It acts as a visible and tangible link to the identity, symbolic creation, and unique aesthetic of its architect, as well as his vision of the city.

The book "Industria y habitar colectivo. Conjuntos habitacionales en el sur de Chile" [Industry and Collective Living: Housing Complexes in Southern Chile], recently published by STOQ Editorial, emerges from an academic research project: "CONYCYT-PIA SOC.1403 Industrial Heritage: Forms of Collective Living in Southern Chile. Contributions to its Valorization and Integrated Recovery." The primary objective of this project was to understand the forms of collective living associated with housing complexes created by industry in the southern part of the country.

The writings collected here—concluded with a dialogue with Kenneth Frampton on the intensity of architecture—are the result of classes taught by Campo Baeza at ETSAM, his beloved Madrid School of Architecture, and many other schools around the world, following a period of quiet maturation over the last few years. "The intention of these Principia is to develop a foundational text, a summary and synthesis of the key themes with which we continue to work and which we understand, with increasing clarity each day, as central to architecture. These are not so much personal discoveries as they are essential themes of architecture itself."

This publication gathers a collection of texts by Santiago Cirugeda and Alice Attout, focusing on the most defining projects in the long-standing career of their studio, Recetas Urbanas. Deliberately resistant to the development of a theoretical and analytical discourse—which would inevitably be aseptic and abstract—these texts adopt the narrative form of the anecdote. This approach allows for the recounting of real, concrete "architectural actions," thereby highlighting the uniqueness of each case study and the centrality of human life in every transformation process, including those of an architectural nature.

High-Rise Buildings: Multiple Typologies