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New: 50 Housing Floor Plans 2

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:59:55 +0100

50 Housing Floor Plans 2 is the fourth deck in the a+t research group’s card collection, created to promote the compact city and highlight exemplary contemporary housing.

Third issue of the Frugality series on sale

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:32:32 +0200

In this third issue of the Frugality series -a critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda- component hunting, urban mining, and biosourced materials- challenge the notion of architecture as a finite object, advancing instead a material ethic in which design becomes an act of negotiation, translation, and ecological and economic commitment.

In the contemporary context, concepts such as component hunting, urban mining, and bio-sourced materials do not merely .

HOUSING LOOPS, a+t research group's critical chronology of living conditions

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:54:11 +0200

This research by a+t research group proposes an alternative reading of the history of housing. Rather than being organised around architectural styles or movements, it is structured through five essential conditions that define the lived experience of inhabitation: Opulence, Precarity, Dignity, Prosperity, and Fraternity.

Drawing on 178 case studies—ranging from the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-eighteenth century to the second decade of the twenty-first—th.

Second issue of the Frugality series on sale

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 10:35:35 +0100

The combination of the resources available to architecture and the ability to resort to a creative finesse is our proposal for this issue of the Frugality series, a critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda.

These are mechanisms without cost, pure intellectual reflection. The absence of su-perfluous components creates objects stripped of cladding and unnecessary layers. Simple constructions that employ the pseudo-craftsmanship of indust.

FRUGALITY, the new series of a+t magazine, on sale now!

Fri, 24 May 2024 12:25:23 +0200

Frugality means less material, less energy, less expense, greater respect for the environment, greater constructive sincerity, and greater social honesty.

Frugality is not imposed by social or cultural movements, or even by political transformations. It is the pure awareness of the moment of restriction and deprivation that conditions the way of acting. Frugality is dismantling the iconic and symbolic character of architecture. It imbues it with a basic rationality, a new classicism w.

BEFORE IS BEFORE, new book now on sale

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:09:53 +0100

BEFORE IS BEFORE explains the design and construction of public space and landscape through a catalog of strategies and actions. It is not a set of universal recipes. They are case studies that show, in a quick and simple way, the 'modus operandi' of the authors.

Aurora Fernández Per and Javier Mozas, founders of a+t research group, consider that strategies are the foundations on which any project proposal is built. In them are the latencies that will allow the development and solve the contingencies of the project.

The second issue of the GENEROSITY series, now on sale

Wed, 1 Feb 2023 12:23:46 +0100

The second issue of the GENEROSITY series is devoted to strategies of domestic exterior space.

The different degrees of domestic exteriority were modulated over time through openings or closures, with one defining moment, when the envelope was released from its load bearing functions.

From a distance, the modernist façade has multiple readings and Le Corbusier’s thick diaphragmed ‘fourth wall’ is not the same as Mies’ fine curtain wall.

From European to American Type

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 12:09:56 +0100

From his early years in Germany to the end of his life in the United States, collective housing has been very present in the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The research carried out by Fernando Casqueiro, Associate Professor at ETSAMadrid, compiles, for the first time, the entire collection of collective housing projects signed by the master.

50 Urban Blocks 2, practicing the rules of the game

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:44:47 +0100

Once upon a time there was a residential building that emerged from an urban project, in turn the consequence of an intermediate plan, which was born from a master plan ... Here is the routine growth of the contemporary city, which is structured from top to bottom in a succession of decisions - more like surrenders and resignations - where only a few initial ideals manage to survive.

To face the game board on which the construction of the city takes place, we propose a test ground whe.

The 15-minute City will be dense and compact

Wed, 20 May 2020 13:25:24 +0200

The ’15-minute City’, the ’10-minute City, or the ‘Distributed City’ will only become possible if they are based on these three options: 1. The COMPACT CITY instead of the dispersed city, 2. COLLECTIVE HOUSING instead of single-family houses and 3. The INTERACTION OF FUNCTIONS instead of the segregation of uses.

Why Density? is a set of tools created by a+t research group in order to build the dense city. These involve practical urban-level concepts applied to specific collective housing buildings. All the illustrations have been done specifically for this publication.

How we have changed! Collective Housing 10 Stamps

Sun, 12 Apr 2020 12:01:35 +0200

Currently, the basic premises of collective dwellings are also being reformulated and they are becoming more flexible and indifferent. Their situation within the urban environment is less important due to the fragmentation and dissolution of contemporary cities. The offer is enhanced by a multiplicity of opportunities. Examples and solutions have merged together and functional separations fade away in the mist of postmodernity. There is no clear separation between different areas. The dispers.

Re-using what is useless

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:40:48 +0200

Many interventions harness DIY aesthetics using donated, salvage or waste materials –especially shipping containers, old furniture, pallets or tyres– in their projects. The objects produced seem symbiotic, seemingly spawned by a mechanic’s workshop and a street market and fit in quite naturally with the chosen sites. Yet re-using not only involves objects and materials which have become obsolete after having been used but also unused structures present in the city, suc.

Collage as a project tool. Boven Bouw Architectuur

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:30:34 +0200

Boven Bouw took on the renovation work for several 19th century buildings in one of the main shopping streets in Antwerp with small or mid-scale projects on the existing structure. In order to represent the interiors they make use of collages, which enable them to remain true to the material of mock-ups yet also to recreate the static vision of drawing. The project approach is from improvised situations. suggesting in turn spontaneous solutions, characteristic of the 19th Century approac.

New pack of the STRATEGY series for sale

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 13:54:09 +0200

The STRATEGY series of the a + t magazine began in 2010 with the aim of highlighting and naming the strategies and actions present in the landscape urbanism and public space projects.

It consists of four volumes (584 pages) and contains 374 different project actions, classified as derived from environmental, socio-economic or aest.

a+t visits Parc Martin Luther King

Wed, 2 Oct 2019 17:27:45 +0200

Work included in a+t 52: PARADISES. Strategy Series

a+t visits Parc aux Angeliques

Wed, 2 Oct 2019 16:05:18 +0200

Work published in: a+t 52 PARADISES. Strategy Series

New issue! a+t 52 PARADISES

Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:10:28 +0200

a + t publishes the fifth volume of the series STRATEGY, dedicated to Urban Parks in different continents.

Japan Diaries: incidental portraits

Sun, 11 Aug 2019 11:28:08 +0200

Published in Japan Diaries. Architecture and more.

Japan Diaries: artificial landscapes

Fri, 9 Aug 2019 10:41:27 +0200

Published in Japan Diaries. Architecture and more.

Japan Diaries: Seto Inland Sea landscapes

Wed, 7 Aug 2019 13:21:36 +0200

Published in: Japan Diaries. Architecture and more.

Japan Diaries: cityscapes

Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:07:57 +0200

Published in: Japan Diaries. Architecture and more.

a+t visits Inujima Life Garden

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 11:09:09 +0200

Project published in: Japan Diaries. Architecture and more

a+t visits Inujima Art Project House S

Wed, 3 Jul 2019 11:10:17 +0200

Published in: Japan Diaries. Architecture and more

a+t visits Seirensho Art Museum

Tue, 2 Jul 2019 12:31:09 +0200

Published in: Japan Diaries. Architecture and more.

a+t visits Tama Art University Library

Mon, 1 Jul 2019 19:09:32 +0200

Published in: Japan Diaries. Architecture and more

a+t visits Inujima Art Project House A

Wed, 3 Jul 2019 10:33:09 +0200

Published in: Japan Diaries. Architecture and more

a+t visits Naoshima Cycle Shelter

Fri, 7 Jun 2019 16:17:17 +0200

Published in: Japan Diaries. Architecture and more.

a+t visits Kyoto Congress Center

Fri, 7 Jun 2019 16:19:12 +0200

Published in: Japan Diaries. Architecture and more

Japan Diaries, raking backwards

Tue, 2 Jul 2019 13:33:39 +0200

"As Javier recalls in his Autumn 2004 diary we made the round trip from Tokyo to Sendai and back in a morning, just to see the Mediatheque by Toyo Ito. The high speed trains enable this but I could not tell you anything about Sendai.

a+t visits Arnold Arboretum

Wed, 2 Oct 2019 10:50:44 +0200

a+t visits Quai Henri IV Housing

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 19:21:04 +0200

Project published in a+t 49: Dwelling Mixers. Complex Buildings series.

a+t visits LabCity CentraleSupélec

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:57:58 +0200

a+t visits Gleisdreieck Park

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:32:33 +0200

a+t visits Francis Bouygues Building Centrale Supélec

Thu, 7 Mar 2019 18:57:08 +0100

Project published in a+t 50: Learning Systems. Complex Buildings series.

a+t visits the Urban Condenser at Paris-Saclay

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:35:58 +0100

Project published in a+t 48 Generators, Linkers, Mixers & Storytellers. Complex Buildings Series

a+t visits Défense-Nanterre Residential Complex

Thu, 7 Feb 2019 17:03:38 +0100

Project published in a+t 49: Dwelling Mixers. Complex Buildings series.

a+t visits Housing in Clichy by Hamonic + Masson

Sun, 27 Jan 2019 11:02:25 +0100

a+t visits King’s Cross Natural Bathing Pond

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:20:22 +0100

PUBLISHED IN: a+t 51 ACTIVATORS. Strategy Series

a+t visits Skip Garden

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:23:20 +0100

Project published in: a+t 51 ACTIVATORS. Strategy Series

Agrippa's Pantheon, Rome

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:12:09 +0100

a+t visits Plaza CoFuFun

Wed, 26 Dec 2018 18:51:20 +0100

New issue! a+t 51 ACTIVATORS

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 13:14:56 +0100

a + t magazine takes up the STRATEGY series, which began in 2010 with the aim of highlighting and naming strategies and actions present in public space projects.

This new volume of the series, ACTIVATORS, includes works by MVRDV, Jaja, Adept, Nendo, Vaumm, Wowhaus and Ola, among others.

These are projects that add new dyna.

Façade of the Holland House building

Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:27:40 +0100

Photos by a+t research group. July, 2015.

a+t visits the Daily Express Building

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:22:07 +0100

Photos by a+t research group. July, 2015

a+t visits the Suresnes Open-air School

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:12:07 +0100

Project published in a+t 50. Learning Systems. Complex Buildings Series

Photos by a+t research group. October, 2018.

a+t visits a hybrid building by TOA architectes

Fri, 9 Nov 2018 10:29:02 +0100

Project published in: DENSITY IS HOME. Photos by a+t research group. October, 2018

a+t visits Centre D’animation Wangari Muta Maathai

Sun, 28 Oct 2018 17:44:34 +0100

a+t visits Maisons Jaoul

Sat, 20 Oct 2018 20:46:32 +0200

a+t visits Villa Savoye

Sun, 7 Oct 2018 20:41:29 +0200

a+t visits Sanaa Social Housing in Paris

Sun, 7 Oct 2018 18:28:42 +0200