Innholdsfortegnelse for September/October 2025 i Dwell

I can’t predict the future. But for 25 years, the people featured in Dwell have. Whether they were resurrecting 20th-century modernism at the close of the McMansion 1990s, championing contemporary prefabrication, or proposing new floor plans, new materials, and new design for new household configurations, they all presented possibilities for what a home can and should be. There’s no “Dwell Style”—and I can’t stand any kind of design orthodoxy—though since we launched our first issue in October 2000, many people have found commonalities in the work that we cover and come up with ideas about what a definitive “Dwell Home” might be. (Does it have to have a flat roof? No.) To celebrate our birthday, we asked former editors and homeowners inspired by the magazine for their interpretation of a…

Small House by Kazuyo Sejima 2000 Kazuyo Sejima’s aptly named home occupies a 388-squarefoot patch of a typically tight Tokyo lot. Inside, living spaces flow into one another, many separated only by the spiral stair that cuts through each floor of the house. The kitchen, dining area, and living room overlap on one level, while a bathroom opens onto a terrace on the top floor. The floor plates vary in size, with more space dedicated to the public areas on the middle floors than to the more private spaces above and below, allowing the house to have its small footprint and faceted shape. Expressive minimalism and an open plan—it’s all here in a home that kicked off the 21st century. Wall House by Anupama Kundoo 2000 Built in 2000, architect…

When architectural photographer Camila Cossio and her husband, architect Luis Carbonell, ended up in Valle de Bravo during the pandemic in 2020, they didn’t know the idyllic region surrounding the town—a lakefront retreat two and a half hours west of Mexico City—would become their year-round home. At the time the couple, who were living in the capital and had both done graduate work in New York, were consummate city dwellers. “We loved socializing with friends and were always out and about,” says Camila. Their apartment in Mexico City’s Condesa neighborhood suited their lifestyle. But the arrival of their first child, Juliana, in July 2019, drastically changed things. “Becoming a parent was hard for me. It meant getting away from my friends and the life I knew,” recalls Luis, whose jovial…

Suleman Anaya Writer “Familial Pattern,” p. 52; “Paradise Found,” p. 86 Suleman Anaya has been a culture, architecture, and design writer for 10 years, after studying history and theory at London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture. That degree unlocked his fascination with cities and how their historic fabric is reinvented by generations. He explores that in this issue, for which he wrote two stories about houses in the Mexico City region, one about an artist’s small home and studio that’s on the same lot as her mother’s house. “I wanted to know how a modern, very formal structure—essentially a tall screen made of bricks—fit into the old fabric of Tlalpan, a historic town that was swallowed by Mexico City,” says Anaya. What did he find there? “Poetic simplicity.” Elizabeth Santos…

Domestic Science Before “shelter magazine” was an industry category—the first-known use of the term was in a 1946 New York Times article—magazines like Good Housekeeping (1885), House Beautiful (1896), and House & Garden (1901) all hit the market as architectural journals, evolving over the early 20th century to reflect the idea that the home was a workplace to be managed, with primarily women doing the managing. The publications embraced the philosophies of domestic science, a movement that treated housework as a professional discipline. Readers could find tips on how to best use and clean new appliances, investigations into the best height for kitchen countertops, and, as workforces shifted during two world wars and the Great Depression, advice on how to manage both a household and an outside-the-home job. The Mail-Order…

Jimena García Álvarez-Buylla’s studio sits on the same plot as her mother’s home in Tlalpan, one of Mexico City’s southernmost boroughs. The path to the artist’s domain winds around the house and between tepozán trees, a vegetable garden, succulents, and fragrant sage. “I inherited my love of working with plants from my mother, as she did from hers,” says Jimena. “Our homes reflect that. My mother and I literally meet in the garden between us.” When Jimena’s live/work space, designed by local firm Estudio MMX, finally appears, it does so potently: A tall, latticed, zigzagging screen made of syncopated, sand-colored bricks cuts diagonally across the back of the property, concealing a two-story, triangular structure. The entrance to the 645-square-foot home/studio is around the corner at the far end, where a shaded…

Chalk it up to the ceilings, which peak at nearly 15 feet, the skylights casting patches of sun on the concrete floors, or windows and doors opening to green vistas, but there’s an undeniable Zen to designer Hannah Go and songwriterproducer Rami Jrade’s home in northeast L.A. Standing in the airy living/dining room, you’d never guess there was an auto shop next door or a busy boulevard just up the street. And that’s just what architect Hunter Knight envisioned. “The focus was on beauty, simplicity, and livability while working within a minimalist budget,” he says. Searching for a place to build a multifamily compound, Knight, the founder of local firm Weather Projects, landed on a 6,250-square-foot corner lot in Cypress Park that was vacant save for a 1905 bungalow. After…

52 Familial Pattern Estudio MMX mmx.com.mx CampoTaller campotaller.com Interior design by Jimena García Álvarez-Buylla jimenagarcia-alvarez.com Structural and civil engineering by Grupo Sai gruposai.com.mx Landscape design by Estudio MMX and Jimena García Álvarez-Buylla Lighting design by ILWT ilwt.com.mx Cabinetry design and installation by Estudio MMX and CampoTaller MEP engineering by Taller 2M 60 Keep It Weird BAAB baab.work Kennedy Restoration 781-335-8000 Structural engineering by Silman tylin.com/silman Kitchen cabinet supplied by Design Oriented Kitchen & Bath 617-966-3477 MEP engineering by ABS Engineering abs.engineering Metalwork by 3-D Welding Inc. 3dweldinginc.com 61 A-Series Windows from Andersen Windows & Doors andersenwindows.com 62 Couch from Knoll knoll.com 63 Chairs from Crate & Barrel crateandbarrel.com; pendant from Louis Poulsen louispoulsen.com; yellow kitchen stools from Knoll 78 Open and Shut Case Mikio Tai Architect & Associates architect-cafe.com Maekawa…

“What a beautiful and rich palette. I would love to spend time in this house—it is so cozy.”Hope Telford via dwell.com Re: “Everyone Onboard: A couple fix up an old prefab, a former sailing clubhouse, to spend time with their relatives in the Dominican Republic.” July/August Always enjoy seeing our beautiful Caribbean islands in print. @THELITTLEMAHOGANYSTUDIO Re: “Made to Move: In Mongolia, a traditional housing type designed for a mobile lifestyle meets the changing realities of its residents.” July/August Very cool article and photos!! Thanks for the change of pace and the stunning beauty from Mongolia. @TRIPOUTFITTER Thank you for this! Nice to see a different and adapted-to-moderntimes traditional way of living. @HOPONOPONO Re: “Community, Centered: An unconventional condominium project in Toronto looks to ‘gentle density’ as a way for…

MY STUDIO IS… 96% A hive of productive clutter 4% A study in head-clearing minimalism IF I HAD TO CHOOSE ONE… 46% Bauhaus 29% Memphis 25% Brutalism “People say, You’re an architect, but you’re working as a designer. I’m like, It’s one and the same!”OLORUNFEMI ADEWUYI, OMI COLLECTIVE LAGOS, NIGERIA @OMI.CV_ Omi Collective For Olorunfemi Adewuyi, furniture can blur the lines between architecture and interior design. While he has both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from Covenant University in Nigeria, he’s not fussy about titles: “People say, You’re an architect, but you’re working as a designer. I’m like, It’s one and the same!” Taking its name from the Yoruba word for water, Adewuyi’s Omi Collective project is fluid in scope; “Furniture has always been a natural extension of…

Scott and Meredith Lipnick have a few theories about the eccentric 1970s vacation home they bought on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. With angular shed rooflines and weathered cedar shingles, the 2,500-square-foot structure read as modernist from the outside, but in spirit “it looked like a big-time party house,” Meredith says. Among the clues? A cutout between the kitchen and entry area where martinis might have been passed through, a wraparound deck, a promenade extending from the second story, and a series of puzzling ladders in the hallway that let you peek down through the oversize bathroom’s clerestory windows. The couple fell for these details, but the house’s quirks soon went from charming to frustrating, especially the meandering layout, lack of privacy, and minimal storage. With two children, they needed something…

About two years ago, George Kougiadis, a retired art investor from Australia who had spent a significant part of his life in Japan, decided that he wanted to move back to his adoptive country with his wife, Mika, and two boisterous dogs, Jasper and Peaches. The couple knew they wanted to live somewhere unique, but exhaustive searches turned up nothing. After many futile months, they found the perfect listing in Tokyo: a striking three-story residence with a dark wooden facade. Elegant and mysterious, it combined the air of a machiya—a traditional Kyoto townhouse—with a minimalist edge. It was just what George wanted—something one-of-a-kind, inventive, an artwork in its own right. When he contacted the realtor on the listing, saying he could be in Tokyo in a matter of days, he…

When Marcos Altgelt discovered a run-down property for rent on a sleepy Buenos Aires backstreet, he came up with a novel idea: to create his dream home without owning it. He negotiated to remodel the property if the landlord would agree to 10 years of affordable rent. Altgelt, cofounder of design studio Ries (and a Dwell 24 honoree last year), thought the property showed potential, given its generous lot sandwiched between two popular neighborhoods, but the house was in bad shape. Back in mid-2022, skyrocketing inflation crippled Argentina’s economy, creating an unpredictable future for tenants facing rent hikes. Yet materials and construction costs were affordable, so Marcos seized the moment. The house was a casa chorizo, a kind of home built in the Rio de la Plata region from the…

My obsession with sponges started when I moved into my own tiny New York apartment in 2014. I didn’t have roommates for once, so everything in the apartment was there because I chose it. I’m very particular about the curation of objects, even down to dish towels and soaps. So, naturally, that trickled down to sponges. In looking for one, I thought, I don’t want just any sponge. I figured there had to be better options than just the green-topped yellow ones. I wanted something unique that would bring me joy and that was more colorful or a little bit unexpected. Then a good friend of mine who grew up in Seoul traveled back to South Korea and got me a colorful crochet sponge. I was like, My God, this…