El Pedregal de San Angel
Luis Barragan, House at Avenida de las Fuentes 12, Jardines del Pedregal, Mexico City, 1949-50. Photo Armando Salas Portugal © Barragan Foundation, Switzerland / ProLitteris / SIAE
A sea of black lava that shapes extraordinary...
Narrare con l‘architettura. Le case di Diego Rivera e Frida Kahlo
Telling a story with architecture. The houses of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
Commenting on his work, Juan O‘Gorman, author of the house-atelier of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in San Angel in Mexico City,...
Thank you Glenn Murcutt
Glenn Murcutt in a portrait by Max Dupain
Area has for many years dedicated one of its monographic issues to an architect, seeking to describe how he works, and thus how he acts and thinks,...
un’architettura rude e raffinata: opere recenti di Glenn Murcutt
“Rough elegance”: Glenn Murcutt’s latest architecture.
Glenn Murcutt represents a way to conceive and practice architecture that is quite unusual in this day and age. In fact, publicity, communication, the message and self-promotion are today...
Marie Short House
The house designed for Marie Short on an estate not far from Kempsey undoubtedly represents a turning point for the architecture of Murcutt. It is, in fact, the first house designed outside the Sydney...
Glenn Murcutt – Architecture for Place
“Mother Earth births
everything for us. Father
Sky carries the water
and oxygen for us to breathe.
Grandfather Sun warms
the planet, warms our body,
gives us light so we can see,
raises the food that the
Mother births and raises
most of...
Nicholas and Carruthers Houses
The two houses have been built in Mount Irvine, the most agricultural region in the Blue Mountains, as a weekend home for two families from Sydney. They may be considered as two variations on...
Fredericks-White House
The evolution and experimentation of the theme of the wooden house which Murcutt conducted in the late Seventies and early Eighties has reached, with this dwelling, the extreme synthesis between the refined accuracy of...
Magney House
Kenneth Frampton has not hesitated to define the site where the house is built, about two hundred and fifty kilometres from Sydney, as heroic. Its beauty is, in particular, due to the scale of...
Magney House
The house built for the Magneys, owners of the house in Jamberoo (Bingie Point) appears as a variation in the rhythm of the sequence of row houses in the Victorian district of Paddington in...
Simpson-Lee House
No other house by Glenn Murcutt is so profoundly the result of a close and inspiring dialogue with the customer as this. During the six years it took to develop the project, through numerous...
Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre
The Education Centre is one of the few projects on a certain scale built by the Australian architect. Murcutt has cooperated with two colleagues, Wendy Lewin and Reg Lark, in order to meet the...