Dear friends, for the next four weeks OfHouses invites you to enjoy the tenth — and final — installment of our 7 Houses from the '70s series, this time dedicated to the architecture of Ticino. This issue owes its existence to an exhibition about another exhibition. Irina Davidovici's Tendenzen at 50: Portrait of an Exhibition (gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich, 2026) revisited the legendary Tendenzen – Neuere Architektur im Tessin (Globus Provisorium, ETH Zurich, 1975), examining it both as a historical event and as a vehicle for the dissemination of architectural ideas. Alongside original display panels, drawings and archival material, the exhibition featured Studio Christ & Gantenbein's delightfully irreverent 1:4 reconstruction of the 1975 exhibition, together with Stefano Graziani's newly commissioned photographs of several of the buildings originally on display. More than a fiftieth anniversary, it was a reminder that exhibitions do not simply document architecture, but they shape the way architectural history is written. When Tendenzen opened in November 1975, it set out to do much more than present recent architecture from Switzerland's Italian-speaking canton. Even its title made that clear: the provisional Die Tessiner gave way to Tendenzen – Neuere Architektur im Tessin, shifting the emphasis from a group of architects to a plurality of positions. The plural mattered. Ticino emerged not as a stylistic school but as a place where different — and often conflicting — architectural influences coexisted: Palladio next to Le Corbusier, Rossi beside Kahn, Terragni in dialogue with vernacular construction. The exhibition and its now-iconic catalogue propelled an extraordinary generation of architects onto the international stage — among them Mario Botta, Aurelio Galfetti, Luigi Snozzi and Livio Vacchini, alongside the older Peppo Brivio and Dolf Schnebli — and quickly became one of the defining architectural events of its time. After travelling to Lausanne, Bellinzona and Basel, it continued for almost a decade touring Munich, Karlsruhe, Innsbruck, Vienna, Salzburg and Barcelona, while a succession of international publications established Ticinese architecture as a global point of reference. What united the architects of Tendenzen was never a common style, but a shared condition: working from a cultural periphery while remaining deeply connected to the architectural debates unfolding in Zurich, Milan and Venice, and cultivating an unusually collaborative way of practicing architecture. Our two Ticino issues follow that same spirit (yes — our next issue is dedicated to Ticinese houses not from the '70s!). Rather than returning only to the celebrated icons, we revisit houses that have quietly slipped from view: forgotten, altered, or simply overshadowed by more famous works. Stay tuned; it’s going to be awesome!

Dear friends, after a couple of quiet months, OfHouses is back.

We spent this time doing what we enjoy most: dusting off vintage magazines and long out-of-print monographs, researching and documenting old forgotten houses. It paid off. We now have around 150 newly documented houses waiting to be published—enough to keep us busy until the end of next year.

The long journey through Japanese Fields OfHouses will take a short break while we revisit and expand some of our older series. We begin next week by bringing 7 Houses from the '70s to a close with an issue dedicated to the architects introduced fifty years ago in the legendary Tendenzen – Neuere Architektur im Tessin exhibition. But we're not leaving Ticino just yet: a second issue follows, venturing beyond the decade to rediscover forgotten houses from the 1960s and the 1980s

After Ticino, we'll return to Pritzker's First Houses with an updated edition covering the earliest houses of the more recent laureates, from Riken Yamamoto to RCR Arquitectes. Then come episodes 11–14 of our Heroes series, dedicated to four authors we have long wanted to revisit: Atelier 5, Frank Gehry, Myron Goldfinger and Shin Takamatsu.

Takamatsu will also bring us back to Japan. Throughout 2027, OfHouses will once again be immersed in Japanese Fields OfHouses, with ten new issues exploring overlooked Japanese houses, followed by not one but two special issues dedicated to one of our greatest architectural heroes, Kazuo Shinohara.

You can find the complete publishing schedule here: https://ofhouses.com/collection_1251-1500

P.S. Many of you have asked about our Japan book. It is still very much in production. It probably won't make it to print this year, but we are confident it will be published next year. Thank you, as always, for your patience, your encouragement and your support!

1310. Koichiro Ishiguro /// Komazawa Park House /// Meguro City, Tokyo, Japan /// 1998-99

1309. Takao Shiotsuka /// Weekend House in Genkai /// Munakata, Fukuoka, Japan /// 1998-99

1308. Mitsuhiko Sato /// House in Sengawa /// Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan /// 1998-99

1307. Toshiaki Ishida /// KUS House /// Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan /// 1998-99

1306. Jun Aoki /// L /// Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan /// 1998-99

1305. Tezuka Architects (Takaharu Tezuka & Yui Tezuka) /// House in Kamakurayama /// Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan /// 1998-99

1304. Koh Kitayama (architecture WORKSHOP) /// S House /// Matsudo, Chiba, Japan /// 1998-99

Dear friends, for the next four weeks OfHouses invites you to enjoy the thirtieth part of our very long series dedicated to some of the most unique Japanese old forgotten houses built in the last three decades of the 20th century. This will be the most comprehensive investigation of Japanese single-family housing ever published in the Western media!

In our forthcoming book “Japanese Fields | OfHouses” (scheduled for release in 2026), we will reveal the exact locations of all the 280 projects in the series, plus more. Stay tuned; it’s going to be awesome!

1303. Akira Yoneda /// House E /// Chuo Ward, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan /// 1997-99

1302. Jun Aoki /// B /// Urayasu, Chiba, Japan /// 1997-99

1301. Isamu Nakamura /// ST-1 (Slanted Terrace House) /// Higashinada Ward, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan /// 1996-99

1300. Kazunari Sakamoto /// House SA /// Asao Ward, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan /// 1995-99

1299. Yasushi Horibe /// House in Izu-Kogen /// Itō, Shizuoka, Japan /// 1998

1298. Yoshiko Takamasu /// House of Thoughts /// Yonago, Tottori, Japan /// 1997-98

1297. Mitsuhiko Sato /// House in Umegaoka /// Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan /// 1997-98