Floor-to-Ceiling Glazing in Luxury Homes: Benefits & Challenges
Floor-to-ceiling windows are now a hallmark of modern luxury homes. They have changed how people experience their living spaces by bringing in natural light, offering wide views, and connecting indoor and outdoor areas. Architects are finding new ways to blend indoor and outdoor spaces, and large glass windows have become more than a style choice. […]
OTIIMA at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026: Architecture for a Planet in Transition
Every three years, the International Union of Architects holds the profession’s largest gathering to ask a single question on a planetary scale. In 2026, that question came to Barcelona under a deceptively simple title: Becoming. Architectures for a Planet in Transition. OTIIMA was proud to be part of the Congress, contributing to the conversation about building […]
Luxury Residential Architecture: The Complete Guide to High-Performance Living
Luxury residential architecture has evolved beyond premium finishes, expansive floor plans, or prestigious locations. Today’s most exceptional houses are defined by something less visible but more valuable: performance. Architects and homeowners increasingly look beyond aesthetics, prioritizing spaces that enhance wellbeing, reduce environmental impact, and create a seamless relationship between architecture and nature. Luxury is no […]
OODA Previews Some Kind, Any Kind at the Bread & Heart Festival
OODA‘s upcoming book, Some Kind of Romance, Any Kind of Existence, makes its world debut at the Bread & Heart Festival in Tirana, and OTIIMA window frames part of the story. What does it look like when an architecture studio decides its next book should not read like an architecture book? That’s the question […]
Architecture that adapts to the landscape: Building on steep sites
Steep terrain resists control. It changes how we think about building, moving the focus from taking charge to working with the land. Architects face a fundamental decision: change the land for the building or let the building fit the land. More often, architects today choose to let buildings adapt to difficult sites. Using gentle methods […]
Back to Nature | Kengo Kuma in Lisbon with OTIIMA
On the evening of May 2nd, one of the most influential architects of our time took the stage at Museu do Oriente to speak about the relationship between architecture and the natural world. OTIIMA was proud to be part of it. Setting the scene There are few occasions in which a city becomes the right […]
The Women of Bauhaus
Over a century after its founding, the Bauhaus still influences how we think about design, architecture, and the built environment. Its legacy is everywhere: in clean lines, purposeful form, and the radical idea that beauty and function are inseparable. But there’s a story within that story that rarely gets told the way it deserves. The […]
The windows of Siza by Mário Martins
In the latest edition of the OTIIMA Journal, architect Mário Martins invites us to look beyond the obvious and rediscover one of architecture’s most elemental features: the window. In his article “The Windows of Siza,” he reflects on the mastery of Álvaro Siza Vieira, whose work transforms openings into light and meaning. Now available in […]
Smiljan Radić Clarke Wins the 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Smiljan Radić Clarke, the Santiago-based architect, has been named the 2026 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture’s highest international honor. Radić’s work is celebrated for its originality, sensitivity to context, and emotional resonance. Radić approaches each project as a unique inquiry. He avoids a repetitive style, instead responding to the specific history, culture, and conditions of […]
Architecture as a leading role in film
Architecture in film does more than provide a visual backdrop. In many cases, the design of spaces, like houses, cities, interiors, and structures, becomes a narrative driver. Spatial decisions reveal character, context, class, social dynamics, and even emotional states. This Oscars season, we highlight six films in which architecture is essential to the storytelling. 1. […]
