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The aim of the research gathered in this book is the use of redrawn graphic documentation on a selection of free-standing single-family homes in order to analyze the most significant changes in house design since the turn of the last century. Based on a systematic representation of eighty houses, it will examine their spatial, programmatic, technical and cultural compositions.The selection of the projects under study comes from the archives that Actar Publishers has built up over twenty years of publishing and reflects on the most fundamental changes the architecture has undergone. The documentation for each project, redrawn and examined in detail, will begin with the location and move on to plans, elevations and sections, accompanied by analytical outlines that sum up each project s main contributions. Finally, there will be a number of annexes with comparative charts including similar-scale drawings to demonstrate those paradigmatic transformations.

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Ricardo Devesa received his degree in architecture from the Valencia School of Architecture (1999). He holds a PhD from Barcelona Tech University (2012) for his dissertation Houses & Trees. He is currently an editor-in-chief at Actar Publishers and an associate professor at the Barcelona School of Architecture of Barcelona (ETSAB). He also teaches at the Elisava School of Design, and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC). He served as a member of the editorial staff of the magazine Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme (1997-1999), and was a member of the editorial board for the magazine Basa, (2004-2008). He is co-editor of Otra mirada. Posiciones contra cronicas. La accion critica como reactivo en la arquitectura espanola reciente (Gustavo Gili, 2010), as well as the Barcelona Modern Architecture Guide (Actar Publishers, 2013).

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