Before the first line on a plan, and long before a single wall rises, the construction of a home begins with an invisible material: intention. In everyday language, architecture is often described through its physical components: brick, concrete, steel, wood. We talk about square meters, styles, finishes. But these are […]

People think a project begins when I pick up a pencil and draw, but in reality that almost never happens. If I grab a sheet of paper and doodle, it means nothing to anyone. They are just lines, an attempt to organize what is already spinning in my head. The […]

Years ago I visited a house in Tapalpa, set on a large plot of land, with an open meadow barely dotted with trees and a dense forest stretching out behind it. Everything there was forest, so at first glance there was nothing exceptional, except for one space that left a […]

I don’t believe there is a heaven for houses, but if there were one, it would be the same one for all of us, because every inhabitant leaves a piece of their soul in the making of a house, and a little more over a lifetime. Nothing makes someone who […]