ARK JOURNAL VOLUME XVI explores extraordinary homes and creative spaces where architecture is deeply connected to place. From historic buildings thoughtfully restored to contemporary homes shaped by landscape, this issue celebrates environments that tell stories of craftsmanship, memory and the people who inhabit them.
Journey through remarkable homes, inspiring studio visits and in-depth conversations with architects, designers and creative minds whose work is guided by curiosity, sensitivity and a profound respect for their surroundings. Discover spaces where architecture, interiors, art and nature exist in quiet dialogue, revealing new ways of living, creating and belonging.
Every home begins before its present inhabitants arrive, and will continue after they leave. Previous lives remain in its rooms and materials bear the evidence of time, giving architecture a permanence that is never entirely fixed. Ark Journal Volume XVI considers impermanence through this continual exchange, looking at what is inherited and how a place changes through the act of living in it.
Ramdane Touhami found his Roman home within Palazzo Borghese, where centuries of history offered fertile ground for the deeply personal universe he has created inside. In Brittany, Ronan Bouroullec’s house in Quimper lives with the conditions of the Atlantic coast, photographed by Bouroullec himself as a meditation on what home means to him. Nicolas Trembley’s 14th century priory in the south of France retains the marks of its long existence, while Teemu Kurkela’s renovation of Akola in Finland brings the architect back to a house embedded in his own childhood. For Athena Calderone and Danielle Siggerud, working on Calderone’s TriBeCa apartment began with studying the building closely and developing a shared idea of atmosphere. At Oda House, Mayuko Aizawa considers how historical awareness can remain active within contemporary architecture. Minjae Kim takes us into his idiosyncratic world of furniture and objects, where the unresolved has a place of its own.
The scale becomes more intimate through a conversation about the table between Dung Ngo, Laila Gohar, Paula Gerbase and Natalia Criado, followed by a portfolio devoted to cutlery and the particular pleasure of an everyday object made with care. Volume XVI also looks back on the extraordinary seven decade practice of Tobia Scarpa, whose work resists an easy definition.
Volume XVI considers a home as part of a much longer continuum, one in which we are temporary custodians rather than final authors. Its pages invite closer attention to what a building has already lived through, what we contribute during our time within it and what might remain after we have gone.
INTERVIEW: Tobia Scarpa, the tactile architect
PORTRAIT: Inhabiting a liminal space Minjae Kim unearths an authentic visual language
INTERVIEW: Yuki Ikeguchi on spaces between, incompleteness and architectural porosity
CASE STUDY: Past and present in harmonious contrast
HOME ROME: Ramdane Touhami adds his own layer of history to a Palazzo Borghese apartment
HOME TRIBECA: Athena Calderone and Danielle Siggerud on shared visions and building atmosphere
HOME BELVÉZET: Nicolas Trembley renovates a 14th century priory traversing ancient and modern
HOME FINLAND: Restoring his family’s manor house Teemu Kurkela honoured history and local craft
INTERVIEW: Dung Ngo talks table craft with Laila Gohar, Paula Gerbase and Natalia Criado
PHOTO ESSAY: A Renaissance presence, portrayed by Jan Gleie and Barbara Hvidt
ARCHITECTURE: The Oda House embodies a philosophy of design and collecting integrated in daily life
LIVING ARCHITECTURE: Simone Guillissen-Hoa’s exemplary modernist home
Ark Journal is more than a publication; it is a celebration of the beauty, simplicity and thoughtful living that shape Scandinavian design and architecture.
- Pages: 224 Size: 236 x 315 mm Softcover Color, black and white