In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Dwell

• The Rise, Fall, and Return of the American Porch
  The porch, as part of the American home, is more than an architectural feature: It’s a view-point into the country’s changing cultural (and literal) climate. Since the mid-19th-century golden age of this classic U.S. domestic design element, its look and role have revealed wider societal fluctuations, from the car’s impact on suburbia to the more recent push for walkable neighborhoods. The porch is so important that it’s the subject of this year’s U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Here, we trace the road to its revival.
• Key Change
  The cofounder of a record label cues up a second take for a Hollywood Hills midcentury home. Local design studio The Curator used earth tones and handmade finishes to compose a wabi-sabi revamp for Sean Famoso and his tiny goldendoodle, Hellcat.
• Squeaky Clean
  The at-home pet spa has become a sought after feature for people who treat their “fur babies” like family.
• Family Trees
  A designer hides his home among the greenery on his parents’ ranch in Guatemala.
• On The Grid
  For renowned artist Charles Gaines and his wife, art historian Roxana Landaverde, a simple expansion of their Los Angeles living room turned into the addition of a perforated metal facade—and, now, a much bigger construction project.
• A Creative Nature
  An artist lets the wind and wildlife of coastal Mexico flow through her radically open home. Without any walls to keep nature out, Deborah Castillo’s thatched roof beach house creates clever ways of living with the world around it.
• Out of Office
  A couple add a greenhouse and workspace to their Uruguay home, making it a WFH dream. After escaping over the years to Lake Huron’s Manitoulin Island, a pair of painters tap Solares Architecture for a sustainable pine-clad cabin.
• Safe Haven
  In Toronto, an emergency shelter attuned to Indigenous identities provides a refuge for women escaping violence.
• Elevated Basics
  A cabin that avoids clichés enhances the experience of nature in the mountains outside Mexico City. Knotty pine and A-frames are nowhere to be found in this mountain lodging—just an artful sense of the outdoors.