Peter Buchanan

Jan 31, 2025 | architectural-review.com | Peter Buchanan |Jose Fernández-Llebrez |Hans Ibelings |Michiel van Iersel

Aldo van Eyck wrote: ‘A house must be like a small city if it’s to be a real home; a city like a large house if it’s to be a real home’. In designing a house, an architect designs the conditions for life to thrive – the same conditions that are conducive to a healthy cityRead stories from the Good rooms + AR House issue

Jul 12, 2024 | architectural-review.com | Peter Buchanan

This house plays with planes, not volumes. Physically fragmented and spatially fluid, yet also satisfyingly complete and serenely contained, its splayed walls capture the best views and celebrate the shifts and shadows of the summer sunThis building study was published in the April 1990 issue of the AR. Read more about the issue here.

Jul 5, 2024 | architectural-review.com | Peter Buchanan

Writing in the wake of the widely lauded 1992 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Barcelona, Peter Buchanan lavishes praise on the city’s architectural transformationOriginally published in AR August 1992, this piece was republished online in June 2024 to coincide with that month’s Sports issueOver the last 10 years Barcelona has quickly established itself as a pre-eminent centre for architecture and design.