José Selgas and Lucía Cano Add a Dash of 21st-Century Whimsy to their Family Compound in Northern Madrid | Architectural Record
In an era of suburban teardowns, with older homes replaced by lot-stuffing mansions, architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano have charted a different course at their own family compound in northern Madrid. Like the other pavilions they have built for themselves on the grounds, a home and studio, this new multifunctional structure is half buried amid the underbrush on the fringes of the property, and is sited so as not to uproot a single tree.The main house was built in the 1960s by Cano’s father, the noted architect Julio Cano Lasso (1920–96). Three of Cano’s brothers, also architects, maintain their joint practice from their father’s old studio, the estate’s first independent structure, and one of the brothers lives in the main house, which he has carefully restored.