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8/14/2026 The room in between
In summer we live on the threshold. Loggia, porch, veranda: the strip between indoors and out becomes the most lived-in room of the house, and deserves to be designed as one.
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8/07/2026 The empty house
In August many homes are left behind. Shutters half closed, still air, light crossing the rooms with no one to watch it. It is worth asking what stays beautiful when no one is there.
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7/31/2026 The long light of summer evenings
In summer the evening lasts for hours. It is the moment when the home moves outside, and artificial light should accompany, not replace.
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7/24/2026 Air, draughts, orientation
Before the system, there is the design. A home that knows how to move air stays liveable in summer with very little energy.
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7/17/2026 Inhabiting the temporary
A holiday home lives on a few things, well chosen. It is an exercise in subtraction that teaches a lot about the everyday home too.
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7/10/2026 The temperature of surfaces
We touch a home before we look at it. In summer, the difference between a room that welcomes and one that repels comes down to the degrees its surfaces hold.
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7/03/2026 The Table at the Centre: The Most Used Piece in the Home and the Most Overlooked
The table is the only piece of furniture where you eat, work, play, argue and make up. Yet it gets chosen as if it were just a horizontal surface.
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6/26/2026 Shade as a building material
In summer we design the light and forget its reverse. Yet when the sun turns harsh, it is shade that decides whether a room can be lived in.
