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The 100 Best Latin American Houses of 2025

Susanna Moreira & Valentina Díaz — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Each year, the ArchDaily Curatorial team reviews the projects that resonated most with our readers, identifying the architectural trends and design approaches that captured the greatest attention throughout the year. Across our local sites – ArchDaily Brasil and ArchDaily en Español – residential architecture remains the most popular category, with projects built in Latin America standing out year after year.

ArchDaily's Best Architectural Projects of 2025

Hana Abdel — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:30:00 +0000

As the year culminates, it's once again time for the ArchDaily team of curators to reflect on the best-performing projects of 2025 and consider what readers were most interested in. Through this diverse overview, we assess the cross-continental similarities and differences in trends and construction development. This year brought us many grand cultural and public spaces by Lina Ghotmeh, BIG, Zaha Hadid Architects, DnA, and Serie Architects, who populated events like Expo Osaka and the Venice Biennale, as well as a surprising number of museums and public or landscape works in China and the rest of the Asian continent. However, while these were sought-after projects, the leading works remained, unsurprisingly, residential projects.

Writer's House / em-estudio

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The House of a Writer is born from a central courtyard that articulates and gives meaning to all the spaces around it. The project embraces the traditional concept of the house with a courtyard, where a bookshelf —the protagonist in the double-height of the central space— becomes the axis that connects the various activities of the home centered around writing.

Amankay House / Di Frenna Arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Casa Amankay reveals itself with calm. Stone steps ascend through the vegetation, marking the rhythm of arrival. The surroundings invite a slow progression. To the right, a tall, leafy tree makes its presence felt; on the opposite side, a vertical volume seems to respond, maintaining a quiet balance. The architecture presents itself clearly, yet finds a gentler way to appear in the shade and vegetation.

Lantana House / Dinamita

Andreas Luco — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Casa Lantana is a home designed to offer a retreat-like space within the city, fostering both relaxation and connection. It captures the essence of a peaceful getaway while maintaining its urban context. The ground floor becomes an open plan, a terrace-like space where the complete opening of its windows allows the exterior to blend seamlessly with the interior. The heights of the public area are enhanced by a level change that separates the entrance and kitchen from the living and dining areas, maintaining a shared view while distinguishing the spaces through variations in elevation.

Mezcala House / TAQ Arquitectura

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Our inspiration comes from the dynamics created by its surroundings: the Ahuilote tree that is on the site, the mountain, and Lake Chapala, which shaped the layout of the house.

Nomah House / Di Frenna Arquitectos

Benjamin Zapico — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 17:00:00 +0000

An architectural project rises, challenging the obstacles imposed by the unevenness of the terrain. It is a unique house, rooted in the surrounding earth and blessed with a privileged view of the majestic volcano in its back. In the midst of complexity, innovation finds its home, manifesting through the integration of rammed earth into the walls of the upper floor, a gesture of communion with the surrounding nature.

Zibu House / Di Frenna Arquitectos

Benjamin Zapico — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Casa Zibu, an evocative name that unfolds majestically in its architecture, invites us to explore a space where design becomes a visual and sensory symphony. In the heart of this dwelling, a central axis on the upper and lower floors becomes the guiding thread that invites us to explore every corner of the house.

Mitica House / ArquiPartners

Valeria Silva — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:00:00 +0000

The house is located in the condominium of Mitica Residencial in the city of Zapo-pan, Jalisco. The project is developed on a 309 m2 lot, it has 2 levels and a small service basement.

Casa F133 / 0studio Arquitectura

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Under the premise of achieving an integral connection with the ravine attached to the site, house F133 sits on the property as a large block.

Interior Design: Houses in Mexico That Include Bathtubs

Mónica Arellano — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Over the years, interior design has evolved according to the needs that arise, but above all according to the experiences it seeks to evoke in the user. In the last two years we have witnessed a radical change and a special interest in this subject because the pandemic forced us to pay specific attention to the configuration of the places we inhabit. This brought about much more holistic designs that seek to address the wellbeing of the user, combining colours, sensory experiences, technology and natural elements that promote health.

Majaica House / 0studio Arquitectura

Andreas Luco — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Majaica house was conceived in the search for a unique experience of continuous contact with the context. With this objective in mind, we designed simple and symmetric volumes, which later will be divided by the surrounding context wrapping the immediate terrain.

Kaab Residence / Di Frenna Arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Sun, 01 May 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Alejandro Rangel Hidalgo, one of Colima’s most beloved and internationally renowned artists, lived for most of his life in the hacienda that anchors the small village of Nogueras. The hacienda, originally established for sugar production in the early 1700s, was acquired by his family in the 1940s and remains a beautiful landmark of the community to this day. Espacio Kaab, which looks out over a corner of the hacienda, honors this venue and its craftsmanship, as well as that of the artist who occupied it. The design of Espacio Kaab exists in dialogue with the hacienda, directing views towards the property as a poetic gesture to honor its location, along with more concrete reflections of its influence, including the use of rescue techniques and materials that were originally used in the hacienda complex. As one enters the property, the natural environment immediately enchants the visitor, creating moments of quiet wonder; it is marked by dry, arid vegetation, cacti, stones, and earth that makes one feel as if in a bubble that both embraces and contrasts with the rest of the region’s colorful floral exuberance. Within and surrounding the property are primavera trees, parotas, tamarind trees, and a magnificent view of the La Barragana river that all serve to welcome you into the characteristic sub-tropical climate of the region.

La Mandarina House / LVS Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 16:00:00 +0000

La Mandarina is a residential and vacation project for a young family. We worked very closely with their ideas and develop a formal scheme that allows visitors to appreciate the forest from any interior space of the house and towards the magnificent wooded site. The conceptual idea revolves around a geometry composed of three volumes connected with corridors and bridges, and move naturally on the ground. The goal was to achieve a cinematic experience full of movements and surprise moments, where the volumes always frame spectacular visuals towards the forest.

Casa Mao / Di Frenna Arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Casa Mao set the standard to achieve a perfect balance of contrasts. As you walk through the house, you experience a discreet and subjective dialogue in the middle of elements that oppose and at the same time generate an impeccable compound between them. The characteristics of an open corner lot led the emplacement of the house to be partially closed to the outside granting the users with privacy and protecting the construction from its orientation to the sun. This initiative allowed the project to open itself to the interior and the heart of the house, where the main views are directed to the rich jungle vegetation that surrounds the context. Parotas, palms, and the chosen materiality incite the sensation of freshness within a warm sub-humid climate such as the one in the city, Colima.

Jacarandas House / C3 Arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The client, a family of three, a mother and two adult children, who were looking for a house that offered both coexistence and independence. The property is located in the municipality of Zapopan, Jalisco, in an upper-class neighborhood with lots of 500 m² (14 m x 35 m approx.) In a context of single-family houses attached on the sides one after another. The architectural conception of the project starts from thinking about the void before what is built. To build with air. This is the origin of the great road that runs longitudinally through the lot, separating the house from the neighboring construction, and making the project more like a corner house and not between party walls.

Houses in Ecuador: 10 Homes Designed Around Courtyards

Belén Maiztegui — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Inner courtyards and gardens can provide many benefits, such as natural light, better ventilation, and increased contact with nature without losing privacy.

Trio Residential Complex / Diseño Norteño

Andreas Luco — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 17:00:00 +0000

In a property located in one of the many hills of the city of Tijuana, originally planned for single-family housing, a three-unit horizontal condominium complex was proposed with the intention of increasing the density of the area and giving young people the possibility of acquiring a home in this central neighbourhood. After clarifying the feasibility of re-densifying the lot, and maintaining a low sale cost, the biggest challenge was to achieve natural lighting and cross ventilation in each apartment, since each of them would be only 5 meters wide, but 18 meters deep. To achieve this, the project was resolved mainly in section, playing with changes in heights, which allow openings at different levels, which ventilate and illuminate the houses on an East-West axis.