
How to Inhabit a Territory: 10 Houses Shaped by Argentina's Landscapes

Argentina's vast territory reveals multiple ways of building shaped by its geographic, climatic, and cultural diversity. When designing single-family homes in Córdoba, Mendoza, Santa Fe, and Buenos Aires, numerous young Argentine architecture firms respond to distinct material, landscape, and cultural conditions by working with the resources, construction systems, and crafts available in each area. The house becomes a means of interpreting its context, engaging with local traditions, and incorporating new approaches to architectural production.
As the setting for everyday life, the house is part of an ongoing experience, acting as a complex and subtle organism that responds not only to its inhabitants' way of life but also to the landscapes in which it is situated. After presenting different perspectives and definitions by figures such as Le Corbusier, Ernesto Rogers, and Lewis Mumford, Argentine architect Eduardo Sacriste emphasizes in his book Qué es la casa its role as a reflection of the past, sharing the present and illuminating the future.
Shido Refuge / 3164.estudio

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Architects: 3164.estudio
- Area: 62 m²
- Year: 2025
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Manufacturers: ACERCO , HENISA SA
Three Orifices House / Estudio BNAA
Renovation and Everyday Life: How Latin American Architecture Reinvents Existing Spaces

Across Latin America, renovation has become less about preservation alone and more about responding to changing ways of living. Rather than freezing buildings in time, many contemporary projects work with existing structures to adapt them to new domestic routines, social dynamics, and spatial needs. Through strategic changes in materials, composition, color, and light, these interventions reinterpret everyday spaces while maintaining a strong connection to their original context.
In this process, houses and apartments become sites of transformation where flow, continuity, and shared spaces are carefully reconsidered. Renovation operates as a precise architectural tool, one that prioritizes natural light, openness, and flexibility to support daily life as it evolves. Instead of imposing new forms, these projects repurpose what is already there, aligning spatial decisions with the habits and rituals of those who inhabit them.
House for a Tree / Esteras Perrote
La Deseada House / Claudia Notari
Small Structures, Big Impact: 4 Rural Prototypes for a Changing Planet

Facing an interconnected planetary climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion, regenerative design emerges as a pathway toward building resilient and ecologically attuned rural futures. At the intersection of architecture, agriculture, and local ecosystems, new models of resilient, self-sufficient agricultural practices are emerging. These projects are not grand industrial systems but small-scale, precise, and deeply contextual architectural interventions that create spaces that foster sustainable cultivation while respecting environmental rhythms, local materials, and community knowledge.
Impluvium / Choza. Espacio de Arquitectura

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Architects: Choza. Espacio de Arquitectura
- Area: 245 m²
- Year: 2023
House in the Forest / MALVINA ZAYAT estudio de arquitectura

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Architects: MALVINA ZAYAT estudio de arquitectura
- Area: 131 m²
- Year: 2024
Beyond Transforming Structures: Creating New Atmospheres in Preexisting Architecture

How can architecture professionals transform the atmosphere of a structure? What kinds of interventions can go beyond adaptive reuse to modify spatial perception? As architectural structures are repurposed over time, new uses and needs emerge between spaces and their users. While the structures of old buildings keep the memory of communities alive, the introduction of new life through greenhouses, housing, commerce, offices, or cultural centers brings about new atmospheres where light, ventilation, the integration of nature, and other elements reshape interior experiences.
Mountain Lodge 14-Leguas / 3164.estudio + SDF Arquitectos

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Architects: 3164.estudio, SDF Arquitectos
- Year: 2020
Cañuelas House / 3164.estudio + SDF Arquitectos
6x6x9 Office / Plano Compartido

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Architects: Plano Compartido
- Area: 90 m²
- Year: 2023
Emerging Architecture: Discover the Work of Five Leading Studios in the City of Córdoba, Argentina

In the architectural production of Argentina in recent years, numerous offices have emerged that, through their practice, explorations, and works, have gained relevance within the contemporary discipline. It is important to highlight that many young architects, even with nascent careers in terms of built work, have managed to establish themselves, demonstrating a unique voice and a defined imprint in their work.
House Between Walls / Esteras Perrote

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Architects: Esteras Perrote
- Year: 2023



























































































