A fresh perspective on your home.
8 Magazine · EN
An image allows us to observe relationships and formulate questions, but it does not prove measurements, performance, or the experience of inhabiting.
Before transforming a home, a conversation about what deserves to remain can change the brief.
In Mexico City, Luis Barragán's home and workshop offer a reading of the threshold and the relationship between domestic life, work and neighbourhood.
Antoni Gaudí's renovation in Barcelona invites a look beyond the façade at decisions connecting the lightwell, colour, openings and ventilation.
Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schröder's house in Utrecht illustrates a specific relationship between layout, privacy and changes in domestic life.
In Poissy, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret's villa shows how structure, windows and circulation shape a domestic experience.
Ilpo’s Sojourn · Flickr / Wikimedia Commons
The evolution of Charles and Ray Eames' home and studio shows how a decision about a site can transform an entire project.
Sxenko · Wikimedia Commons
The Kaufmann family's weekend house offers a way to consider housing, landscape and conservation through a documented project by Frank Lloyd Wright.