How can people 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. In France, despitedespite the ‘zero net artificialisation’ objective which, since 2021, which has considerably restricted house building since 2021, and the rise in property prices and mortgage rates, new houses are still being built. Architects have not stopped designing detached houses.

On the contrary, they are working hard to reinvent this typology – which, when handled by architects, is the best reflection of the evolution of a territory and a culture. How do they go about ensuring that this model, both reviled and dreamt of, is as sustainable as possible?

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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