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Positions

Best of Modernism: Iconic Houses

For more than a decade the Iconic Houses platform has been the guide par excellence to modern house museums worldwide. In this interview, founder Natascha Drabbe explains what else the network can accomplish.

Recently published

On the road

Provençal Symphony – (Architectural) Art and Landscape

Azure blue sea, dazzling lavender fields, gentle pine hills and golden shimmering vineyards – the Provence Côte d’Azur region enchants. On the road to places where art, culture and landscape merge into a symphony.

Positions

Retrieve, rework, reinstall

An architectural firm has demonstrated how to build a house from used, recycled and reusable materials. Due to the scarcity of data, this required a flexibility that is likely to change the planning process in the future.

Press

Tasteful holiday oasis @ The Plan

Piedmont’s best kept secret overlooking Lago d’Orta – THE PLAN Interior Design & Contract 08, the supplement for the Salone del Mobile Milano presents our partner house La Darbia at great length in April 2024.

Spaces

More than just holidays! We present houses with added value: for workshops, meetings, team events and private celebrations.

Space

Ein Ding der Möglichkeit

A cooperative project provides plenty of space for new living and working concepts on a former farm in the Wendland region.

SpaceStories

Architektenhütte Allgäu – with a view of the mountains

Sometimes it takes special places to be able to think straight. By tradition, the seclusion of monasteries is often used for this purpose, but secluded places in the mountains are also a good place to come to rest.

HomeStories

We let hosts and architects have their say and provide a glimpse behind the facade of the houses – putting them in a very personal light and, in a sense, telling them from the inside out.

HomeStories

The world is a gentle place ‑ The Schgaguler

At the heart of lively Kastelruth there is a quiet house that has placed zeitgeist and a thoroughly essential architecture in front of the majestic Sciliar. The timeless presence of the rock massif is omnipresent, the holiday concept is wholesome, warm and grounding.

HomeStories

Free as Oscar

The South Tyrolean architect Martin Gruber allows his thoughts to fly, pushes back the horizon and meets Oscar Niemeyer at the Copacabana. An ode to the creative power of imagination.

HomeStories

Alpine romanticism without kitsch: Schilana 80

In the upper Inn valley rests a 300-year-old Engadine house. In all serenity, it awaits and decelerates guests who appreciate built and lived authenticity in the Central Alps.

One Picture

In our series “One Picture”, we present houses that have surprised, fascinated or simply compelled us as editors to pay even more attention to this house on the basis of its visual material. Here, we present our editorial head cinema in person, one after the other.

One Picture

Cure for wrinkles

Our community manager fulfilled a long-held wish years ago. What a picture had to do with it is revealed in the second part of our series.

One Picture

Great Dreams of Space

Sometimes it’s a certain image that drives you away. Our account manager for example has been magically drawn to a house photo in Spain for years.

On the road

In the series, journalist Jan Dimog and architect Hendrik Bohle, better known as thelink.berlin, present their diverse travel impressions from Europe.

On the road

100 years of Functionalism in the Czech Republic – the Ensemble Legacy

In Zlín in Moravia, the entrepreneur Tomas Bata not only turned his shoe company into a global corporation, but also had a lasting impact on the city, making it the first functionalist city in the world.

On the road

Route 6 – on the road in the Alps

The renowned South Tyrolean architect Werner Tscholl designed six architectural sculptures for the high alpine Timmelsjoch Experience between Italy and Austria. “on the road” to the dreamlike and spectacular route of the six special shapes.

On the road

Land of Lakes, South Sea and Savoy – on the road in Finland

Alvar Aalto was the defining architect of Finnish modernism. The 125th birthday of the master builder will be celebrated in 2023. We are “on the road” to the most important places where the master builder worked.

Books by HOLIDAYARCHITECTURE

URLAUBSARCHITEKTUR is Europe’s leading online portal for architecturally outstanding holiday homes. We’ve published a series of award-winning books – available in bookshops or directly in our online shop.

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