ARQ 122 | Housing: Domestic Plot
(april 2026)
Libre acceso / Open Access (diamond) Stephannie Fell (ed.); several authors
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20.6 x 27 cm | 162 pp.
Spanish + English
In 2026, ARQ dedicates its annual cycle to housing, approaching it from three scales: the life that unfolds within walls (ARQ 122); housing as a constitutive element of urban form (ARQ 123); and the in-between spaces—infrastructures, thresholds, or gray zones—that mediate between the home and the city (ARQ 124).
If taken literally, housing is the origin myth of architecture. If less so, it is where the profession has found one of its most persistent questions: the relationship between space and ways of life, between production and reproduction. Home is that interior where, paraphrasing Walter Benjamin, walls record both the traces of subjectivity and the rise of capitalism in the modern city. Within walls, a social order is rehearsed or resisted—visible in the hierarchy of rooms, the division of domestic labor, or the distinction between what is made visible and what remains out of sight. Robin Evans warned that it would be foolish to believe that a floorplan forces people to relate in a certain way, but even more foolish to think that it cannot prevent—or at least hinder—certain relations from taking place. (…)
What is the house today? This issue reaffirms that its design extends beyond spatial organization and sequences of rooms. It encompasses the objects and technologies that mediate it, the forms of public life it includes or excludes, and the reconfigurations introduced—or denied—to its inhabitants. Perhaps the most productive way to think of it is neither as a refuge nor as a stable type, but as a way of organizing dwelling in which cultural categories such as family, gender, property, or care may be naturalized, transformed, or dissolved.
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Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 162 pp.
Spanish + English
ISSN: 0716-0852 (print) / 0717-6996 (online)
CB: 7-808700-700809
CB: 7-808700-700809
In 2026, ARQ dedicates its annual cycle to housing, approaching it from three scales: the life that unfolds within walls (ARQ 122); housing as a constitutive element of urban form (ARQ 123); and the in-between spaces—infrastructures, thresholds, or gray zones—that mediate between the home and the city (ARQ 124).
If taken literally, housing is the origin myth of architecture. If less so, it is where the profession has found one of its most persistent questions: the relationship between space and ways of life, between production and reproduction. Home is that interior where, paraphrasing Walter Benjamin, walls record both the traces of subjectivity and the rise of capitalism in the modern city. Within walls, a social order is rehearsed or resisted—visible in the hierarchy of rooms, the division of domestic labor, or the distinction between what is made visible and what remains out of sight. Robin Evans warned that it would be foolish to believe that a floorplan forces people to relate in a certain way, but even more foolish to think that it cannot prevent—or at least hinder—certain relations from taking place. (…)
What is the house today? This issue reaffirms that its design extends beyond spatial organization and sequences of rooms. It encompasses the objects and technologies that mediate it, the forms of public life it includes or excludes, and the reconfigurations introduced—or denied—to its inhabitants. Perhaps the most productive way to think of it is neither as a refuge nor as a stable type, but as a way of organizing dwelling in which cultural categories such as family, gender, property, or care may be naturalized, transformed, or dissolved.
Contents
- Housing: Domestic Plot (editorial) — Stephannie Fell
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Historicizing the U.S. Model Home — Greg Castillo, Elaine Stiles
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Double Vault House — Max Núñez Arquitectos
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"This Must Be the Place": Double Vault House by Max Núñez Architects — Daniel Talesnik
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House Without Corridor 1: Kawelluco — Cecilia Puga - Paula Velasco Arquitectura
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Malibu Ocean Front Overlay Zone (MOFOZ) — Williston Kepler
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Technological Melodrama: Imaginaries of Domestic Technology in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema — Hugo Palmarola
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House in La Vicentina — Al Borde
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ZA House Extension — Rodrigo Valenzuela
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Productive Housing. Domestic and Work Spaces in Emergency Housing in Chile — Elizabeth Wagemann, German Guzmán, Natalia Donoso, Matías Quiroz
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Generic Domesticity: House-Studio for a Photographer — Román Bauer Arquitectos
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Grouped Housing in Jesús María: Between the Minimum and the Collective — Carranza Vázquez Arquitectos
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Glass/Wood House, New Canaan — Erieta Attali
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