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ARQ 124 Housing: In-betweens
The third and final open call of our 2026 editorial cycle, “Housing:”, is now open. ARQ 124 invites contributions that problematize, propose new readings of, or recover historical proposals for the spaces between housing and the city—thresholds, communal gardens, semi-public courtyards, collective programs, or ambiguous zones that resist easy categorization. We welcome academic essays (6,000 words), opinion columns and critiques (1,500 words), works and projects (10-page PDF), and outstanding thesis projects. Submissions are open until 31 July 2026. More details in our Open call section.
ARQ docs Graciela Silvestri
Graciela Silvestri; Stephannie Fell, Alejandra Bosch, Francisco Quintana (eds.)This book brings together two essays by Graciela Silvestri that examine the ways in which architecture has learned to look at the city and territory. Through Le Corbusier’s journey to South America, on the one hand, and the urban imaginary produced by science fiction, cinema, and comics, on the other, Silvestri shifts attention away from built objects toward cultural operations — the construction of the gaze, travel, and images—that have shaped and continue to shape the idea of modern space in Latin America.
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Latest titles in English —
ARQ 122 | Housing: Domestic Plot
(april 2026)
Libre acceso / Open Access (diamond) Softcover
20.6 x 27 cm | 162 pp.
Spanish + English
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
ARQ Docs Graciela Silvestri
(march 2026)
Graciela Silvestri; Alejandra Bosch, Francisco Quintana, Stephannie Fell (eds.) Softcover
12 x 17 cm | 140 pp.
English / Spanish
ISBN: 978-956-6204-35-0
The 36th book in the ARQ docs series brings together two essays by architect and historian Graciela Silvestri. In them, the author focuses on cultural operations that reconfigured the Latin American architectural imagination, shifting attention from the analysis of built works towards the formation of modern ways of seeing.
Contents
Prologue — Alejandra Bosch
Lado A — The Art of the Tourist: Le Corbusier on the Banks of the Paraná
Lado B — How We Imagine the City of the Future. Architecture, Film, and Comics in the World of Fantascience
Side A: Le Corbusier’s journey to South America is usually recounted as an anecdote in the architect’s biography. The first essay proposes a different reading: drawing on letters, sketches, and lectures, Silvestri reconstructs how physical displacement becomes a device for territorial reading for Le Corbusier, positioning this journey as a decisive moment in the architect’s formation of a modern sensibility to the territory.
Side B: The second essay explores the urban imaginaries produced by fantascience in cinema and comics, asking how they shaped twentieth-century architectural culture. From El Eternauta to Blade Runner, Silvestri situates image-making alongside disciplinary debates, proposing that the modern Latin American city was built not only through plans, but also through fictions that anticipated—and put pressure on—its possible forms.
Graciela Silvestri is an architect and holds a doctorate in History from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her professional career unfolded between independent research—as a member of Argentina's Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) until her retirement in 2019—and teaching. She is recognised for her work on the history of landscape and its relationship to the formation of cultural and political territorial identity. She is currently Emeritus Professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata—where she held a full professorship until her retirement in 2023—and a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is the author of an extensive body of work, including El color del río. Historia cultural del paisaje del Riachuelo (Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 2004); El lugar común. Una historia de las figuras de paisaje en el Rio de la Plata (Edhasa, 2011); and Las tierras desubicadas. Paisajes y culturas en la Sudamérica fluvial (Editorial Universitaria de Entre Rios, 2021).