Who can still dare to build detached houses? If the trend, in France, is to criticise this typology, it’s because architects are often not involved in its conception. Even in Belgium, Europe’s laboratory for domestic architecture, the ‘4-facade house’ has lost ground, giving way instead to intergenerational housing and cohabitation projects; the enthusiastic reception these developments receive is matched only by their obvious design quality. Meanwhile, Christophe Millet, President of the Conseil national de l’Ordre des architectes (France’s professional architecture organisation), argues in favour of a precise and delicate architecture, involving both the investment of available urban land and the renovation of existing buildings – in his words, ‘the project of the century’. The house is dead, long live the house? This is where the architect comes in.

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WHAT’S NEW

Ayham Jabr’s collage series at the Institut du Monde Arabe, AA’s exhibition selection, Tribune: architects must take a stand against modern slavery, AA’s book selection, buildings: Atelier Jean Nouvel, Fondation Cartier and and Studio Gang, University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center, essay on the birth of social housing, biography of Patty Hopkins, architect wiped off the map.

VIEWPOINTS 

INTERIOR — Interview with humanities and social sciences researcher Stéphanie Dadour: The Threshold and the Struggle
STORY — Ζίτσας 4, by Emmanuelle Borne
PHOTOGRAPHY — La Ca’ Rossa (Red House), In the Eye of Luc Boegly, with Olivier Namias
LIVING WOLRDS — The Private Garden Weaves Biodiversity, by Sylvie Ligny

PROFILE

Yasmeen Lari, the Indomitable Soul, by Clémentine Roland 

REPORT

PREAMBLE — Is the House on Fire?, by Clémentine Roland and  Anastasia de Villepin illustrated by the drawings of Marie Jacotey
PHILOSOPHY — “Home is a question mark, by Éric de Thoisy
REPRESENTATION — Plump House, by Junya Ishigami
ANALYSIS — New Communities of Inhabitants, by Christophe Catsaros
ANTHROPOLOGY — Life and Death of the House. The example of Khmu houses in Northern Laos, by Rosalie Stolz
UTOPIA — Matthew Butcher’s Theoretical Houses
BUILDINGS — Suzuko Yamada Architects : Daita2019, Miyazaki, Nakano (Japan); gon architects, Casavera (Spain); People’s Architecture Office, Plugin Houses (China); Bureau des Mésarchitectures, Maison écorchée (Portugal).

TRENDS

IN THE NEWS — Unilin
CREATION — Lelièvre Paris House
PROJECTS AND PRODUCTS — AA’s selection