Recently, Airbnb has begun to approach the architectural field, both by offering unique experiences in world-renowned buildings and by creating Archibnb, a platform that offers hosts the option to create architectural floor plans.
Through these initiatives, guests from various locations have had the privilege of spending a night in places like the Great Wall of China, the Louvre Museum, or the LEGO House.
But if your destination is Latin America, specifically Argentina, you can now stay in exemplary works by architects including Norman Foster, Clorindo Testa, Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, Juan Kurchan, Fermín Bereterbide, and Luciano Kruk. Explore below the list of works available for booking in the country.
Ferrari Hardoy, Kurchan - Los Eucaliptus
Located in the Belgrano neighborhood, “Los Eucaliptus” stands as a symbol of modern ideals. Designed in 1941 by architects Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, it reflects the social, spatial, and cultural concerns of the period. The building accommodates a collective housing program with 29 apartments but includes a large number of common spaces, hybridizing and experimenting with the relationship between public and private, and emphasizing the importance of community life.
The most remarkable element of the project is a large, lushly vegetated park at the front of the building, achieved by completely setting the project back toward the rear of the lot. In this way, the apartments open up to their own park, obtaining optimal lighting and ventilation, and offering interesting views of the city filtered through the eucalyptus trees.
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Luciano Kruk - Casa Mach
Luciano Kruk's work is located in a gated community in Ingeniero Maschwitz, a low-density suburban town in the northern area of Greater Buenos Aires. Consistent with the architect's signature style, exposed concrete dominates as the characteristic material, providing spatial qualities and a minimalist character.
The entire program is developed on a single level and is oriented toward distant views of the neighboring groves. The project also incorporates an indoor garden featuring vegetation and water, which provides an intimate atmosphere of calm.
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Foster + Partners - Faena Aleph
This apartment building by the Faena Group, located in the city of Buenos Aires, is inspired by the traditional architecture of local housing, showcasing architect Norman Foster's talent for designing buildings and urban structures that prioritize contextual relationships and cultural heritage.
The design of the apartments plays with the ambiguous and blurred boundaries between exterior and interior. Double-height courtyards combine with split-level living spaces, where each apartment features vaulted ceilings and sliding windows to maximize natural ventilation. As an exterior enclosure, a combination of movable screens allows residents to adjust the levels of interior light and ensure appropriate privacy.
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Pablo Gagliardo - Pueyrredón 1101 Building
Located in Rosario, Santa Fe province, this building by Pablo Gagliardo functions as a hybrid, alternating three different apartment typologies per floor while maintaining the spatial continuity of the interior areas as its main premise.
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The units are designed under the concepts of flexibility and simplicity. Featuring exposed concrete, they prioritize the quality of the interior environments while enhancing natural light through the permeability of the building envelope and the inclusion of planted balconies. To crown the project, the building features two levels with their own terrace and private pool, offering striking panoramic views of the city of Rosario and a high visual connectivity with urban life.
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Fermín Bereterbide - Los Andes Complex
Inaugurated in 1928, the Parque Los Andes Collective House, designed by the renowned architect Fermín Bereterbide, is located in the Chacarita neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
In pursuit of community building, this housing and commercial complex incorporates shared spaces, social areas, and abundant vegetation that weaves between the main blocks, providing natural light and ventilation. The housing blocks are organized along an axis and trace the perimeter of the block, creating a “micro-neighborhood” that leaves over 50% of the site open, generating a controlled urban space of high spatial quality.
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BAK - V+D Complex
Located in the forests of Mar Azul, this summer house by the studio of María Victoria Besonías, Guillermo de Almeida, and Luciano Kruk (BAK) is part of a four-unit complex. These units are isolated from one another but share common spaces, such as a swimming pool, a solarium, and storage rooms.
The project is situated on a steep dune area, where an envelope composed of just two materials (concrete and glass) handles the integration with the landscape while addressing formal, structural, functional, finishing, and maintenance requirements.
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BAK - Casa AV
The AV House, also by the studio of María Victoria Besonías, Guillermo de Almeida, and Luciano Kruk (BAK), is located in a high-landscape-value area of Mar Azul. This roughly 100-square-meter house is designed on a single level with an aesthetic and construction approach very similar to other residences built in the area by the firm.
The different programmed uses naturally adapt to the site's slope, distributed across simple, stepped volumes. Here, the architects address not only building issues but also propose built-in concrete furniture. Except for the beds, armchairs, and chairs, the rest of the fixtures and furniture are fused with the architecture.
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Morini Arquitectos - La Negrita
This house by Morini Arquitectos is located in Mendiolaza, a town in the Córdoba province situated along the eastern slope of the Sierras Chicas. The site features abundant vegetation, which the architects chose to preserve by placing the house in the only existing clearing on the lot.
Designed with an introverted layout, the house blocks street views with a large black wall while enhancing the connection with nature through openness toward its own garden. The result is a house where transitions dominate, with spatial qualities shifting from the lightness of the exterior metal sheeting to the heaviness of the interior concrete, and from the opacity of the street-facing wall to the transparency of its private spaces.
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Andrés Alonso - Los Miradores
This project by Andrés Alonso is located in the highest area of the city of Villa Allende in Córdoba. Situated on a steeply sloping 2,368-square-meter lot, this complex of four temporary housing units reflects on the spirit of architecture, using the panoptic principle of observation in service of the inhabitant's uniqueness.
A continuous, semi-buried brick base houses the bedroom area, drawing on local tradition. Resting on this base is the daytime area, materialized by four pure white rectangular prisms of the same proportions as the base, but rotated over the service core to project toward the horizon.
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Clorindo Testa - La Tumbona
La Tumbona is one of the houses designed by Clorindo Testa in Ostende, a highly popular seaside resort in the Pinamar district. Built between 1986 and 1989, the house is located directly on the beach dunes, with a proximity to the sea that allows for panoramic views of the entire coastline. This project represents the materialization and condensation of Testa's ideals, offering an opportunity to experience his architecture from within.
The house emerges as a cubic volume raised on substantial concrete pillars, standing out against the natural landscape. The clearance between the house and the ground allows seawater to circulate freely underneath during high tides, giving the sensation of being aboard a ship heading out to sea.
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Clorindo Testa - Capotesta
The Capotesta House, also located in the Pinamar district, was designed by Clorindo Testa and built between 1983 and 1985, shortly before La Tumbona. This house was not a commission; rather, it was a home that Clorindo designed for himself on a vacant lot resulting from the city's expansion on its northern edge. The residence is nestled in a small forest near the shoreline.
Its morphology is simple, consisting of a cubic volume that accommodates the layout on just two levels. Three extensions are annexed to this main volume, along with a balcony terrace on the first floor.
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Sánchez, Lagos, De la Torre - Kavanagh Building
In the Retiro neighborhood, next to the plaza designed by Carlos León Thays in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, rises the Kavanagh Building, a monumental local landmark designed by architects Gregorio Sánchez, Ernesto Lagos, and Luis María de la Torre. Inaugurated in 1936, it represents a milestone in Buenos Aires' architectural history and stands as a technological feat. With a height of 120 meters, 31 floors, and 103 apartments, it became the tallest reinforced concrete skyscraper in Latin America at the time.
Since 1999, the Kavanagh has been part of UNESCO's World Heritage of Modern Architecture and is declared a National Historic Monument, highlighting its architectural significance.
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This article was written by Belén Maiztegui. The translation is powered by AI.
