Architecture

Victor Horta, founder of Art Nouveau, found his first-ever commission in Brussels townhouse Maison Autrique. Now impeccably renovated and open to the public, it chronicles the birth of a design movement

A snaking lantern-lined pathway and ingenious sloping waterways bear the hallmarks of a Fernando Caruncho landscape. This striking layout in the Swiss mountains shows the late garden designer at the peak of his success

Iceland’s Sigurjón Ólafsson Museum showcases the sculptor’s inspired and inspiring abstractions. Its director – his widow, Inga Birgitta Spur – reflects on their life together

There’s no limit to how long the stalwart Sardinian Peppino Dore is willing to keep labouring over his magnum opus: a pedimented palace cum decadent duomo, crafted in its maximalist entirety by his own two hands

The raw beauty of Lluís Castaldo’s ceramics rhymes aesthetically with the textured Brutalist design of his Mallorcan studio, conceived by his architect friend Sebastià Gamundí

The pet project of mid-century architect Tomaso Buzzi, La Scarzuola encompasses a greatest-hits tour of famous buildings, a colossal ship and a cornucopia of world religions

Eileen Gray’s 1920s house in the South of France isn’t just an architectural masterpiece, it’s an ode to female desire. Fifty years after her death, we reveal all

Don’t be fooled by Vinje’s relatively sober exterior. Beyond the Lutheran church’s faded-pink walls lurks an eye-opening interior decorated by impoverished country folk in the 1930s

Casa Batlló in Barcelona is a wonder of wavy proportions. To mark the centenary of Antoni Gaudí’s death, the famed ‘dragon house’ has an eye-opening makeover that both respects and reinforces the great architect’s genius

The ‘Earthship’ movement is alive and well in Taos, where an LA-based landscape designer finds harbour in a radical 1980s house

The post-World-War-I spirit of civic optimism inspired the creation of Boulogne-Billancourt’s city hall, heralding what its designers anticipated would be a new gilded age

For centuries now, mosques in some of Turkey’s most isolated settlements have been calling worshippers to prayer – and to admire their supremely charming interiors. Join us as we marvel at the folky, motif-heavy mihrabs and minbars

What’s the balm to pure Brutalism? Since the early 1960s, Venezuelan architect Oscar Tenreiro has been gradually growing his home, Los Aromos in Caracas, into a flowering example of multicultural Modernism that reflects the sprawl of the surrounding city

A hymn to water, courtesy of Mexico’s best-known muralist, enlivens a hydraulic station in the capital, part of a huge infrastructure project in the 1950s