La Vera – Selgas Cano
Known for their vibrant, translucent structures and experimental forms in projects like Second Home and public buildings across Europe and Africa, architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano take a markedly different approach in their own rural weekend retreat. In contrast to their signature colorful, bulbous architecture, this private house embraces a raw, rustic sensibility, with irregular surfaces and minimal intervention.
Stripped of polish and spectacle, the house reveals a more elemental relationship to material and place, foregrounding texture, informality, and retreat. It reflects a personal, quieter architecture—one that trades luminosity for earthiness, and high-tech fabrication for handmade immediacy—showcasing another facet of SelgasCano’s sensibility.
