+ 43

• Architects

  Estudio Borrachia

• Location

  Belgrano, Argentina

• Category

  Houses Interiors

• Lead Architect

  Alejandro Borrachia

• Collaborator

  Matias Carloni

• Client

  Flia. Carreiro

• Area

  170.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photography

  Fernando Schapochnik, Courtesy of Estudio Borrachia

+ 35

• Architects

  FRAM arquitectos

• Location

  Dique Luján, Argentina

• Category

  Houses Interiors

• Architects in Charge

  Franco Riccheri, Agustín Mendiondo

• Design Team

  David Aliberti

• Area

  100.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Fernando Schapochnik

+ 21

• Architects

  DOMO

• Location

  Pueyrredón 3476, San Martin, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Residential

• Architect in Charge

  Pablo Phatouros

• Area

  9579.8 ft2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Fernando Schapochnik

+ 32

• Architects

  IR arquitectura

• Location

  Chacarita, CABA, Argentina

• Category

  Apartment interiors

• Project Team

  Luciano Intile, Enrico Cavaglià, Fermín Indavere, Esteban Basili, Guillermo Mirochnic, Rodrigo Perez de Pedro, Cecile Elbel, Sabine Uldry, Tommaso Polli.

• Area

  25.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographer

  Fernando Schapochnik

Six years ago Susan Szenasy and I had the honor of interviewing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer for Metropolis magazine. While he was a federal appeals judge in Boston, Breyer played a key role in shepherding the design and construction of the John Joseph Moakley United State Courthouse, designed by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. In 2011 Justice Breyer joined the jury of the Pritzker Prize. Given his long involvement with architecture, I thought it would be fun to catch up with him. So, on the final day of court before breaking for the summer recess, I talked to Justice Breyer about his experience as a design client, how to create good government buildings, and why public architecture matters.

+ 19

• Architects

  FRAM arquitectos, JES

• Location

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Renovation

• Area

  50.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Fernando Schapochnik

+ 23

• Architects

  BHY arquitectos

• Location

  Argentina

• Category

  Houses

• Architects in Charge

  Javier Bracamonte, Julia Hajnal, Gonzalo Yerba

• Construction

  Aldo Bracamonte

• Area

  270.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographer

  Fernando Schapochnik

+ 16

• Architect

  A3 LUPPI UGALDE WINTER

• Location

  Franklin D. Roosevelt 3104, C1428 CABA, Argentina

• Category

  Apartments

• Authors Architects

  Santiago Luppi, Javier Ugalde, Andrea Winter

• Desarrolladora

  Buenos Aires Flats

• Area

  2000.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographer

  Fernando Schapochnik

+ 16

We are accustomed to seeing photographs in which architecture is recorded without any occupants, or perhaps captured only with models who give scale to the spaces shown. However, in recent years architectural photographers have increasingly decided to humanize the houses they document, presenting not only their architecture, but also those who inhabit these buildings. In this week's best photos, we present a selection of 15 houses captured by renowned photographers such as Luc Roymans, Adrien Williams and Fernando Schapochnik.

+ 23

• Architects

  Nicolás Pinto da Mota, Victoria María Falcón

• Location

  Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Houses

• Area

  280.0 m2

• Project Year

  2017

• Photographs

  Fernando Schapochnik

+ 20

• Architects

  Nicolás Pinto da Mota

• Location

  Argentina

• Category

  Houses

• Architect in Charge

  Matias Cosenza

• Project Team

  Tadeo Itzcovich, Esteban Unjold, Agustin Aguirre

• Area

  890.0 m2

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Fernando Schapochnik

+ 16

• Architects

  Torrado Arquitectos

• Location

  Escobar km45, Nueva Ciudad Puertos, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Category

  Sports Architecture

• Architects in Charge

  Martin Ramiro Torrado, Ligia Gaffuri

• Project Team

  Noelia Garcia Lofredo, Fernando Schapochnik

• Project Year

  2016

• Photographs

  Fernando Schapochnik

Over the course of history the unique characteristics of wood, which are dependent upon the species of the tree and the location in which it has grown, have enabled humanity to flourish in all parts of the globe. The architectural details of wooden construction therefore show a great diversity of meetings and joints, showing not only a project's constructive and structural logic, but also embodying the value and complexity of each project.

Take a look at these 50 construction details of projects that stand out for their clever use of wood.