OPA

California Houses brings together thirty-six houses completed over the past ten years that capture the spirit of California in distinctive ways and respond creatively to context and the environment.

Michael Webb
"Hidden House," pp. 110-117

The Nob Hill Gazette is San Francisco's publication-of-record for the City's social, philanthropic, and cultural life.

Jennifer Massoni Pardini
"Spring Forward," pg. 22

GA Houses Project 2024 documents 53 unbuilt houses by 53 international architects.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Echo Lake", pp. 16-19

GA Houses documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Gallery House," pp. 86-101
"Aerie/T House," pp. 102-113

Architizer celebrates the world's best architecture and design through projects, competitions, awards, and stories.

Eric Baldwin
"Desert Poetry: High Design for High Heat"

Architectural Digest, the most beautiful houses in the world.

Elizabeth Stamp
"The World’s 10 Craziest Futuristic Houses That Actually Exist"

Acumen est un magazine d'art design consacré à l'art aux artistes à l'architecture, au design, à la mode et à la photographie.

Nathalie Dassa
"Une Espace Idéal pour Réfléchir"

Wallpaper* is the world's number one global design destination, championing the best in architecture, interiors, fashion, art and contemporary lifestyle.

Ellie Stathaki
"Space Invader wraps a 1970s Berkeley house in a ‘low-resolution’ wrapper"

Designboom is a daily web magazine covering the fields of industrial design, architecture, and art internationally.

Lea Zeitoun
"Hovering Above San Francisco, this Home Office Invites Deep Reflection and Clarity"

GA Houses Project 2023 documents 53 unbuilt houses by 53 international architects.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Space Invader"

Wallpaper* is the world's number one global design destination, championing the best in architecture, interiors, fashion, art, and contemporary lifestyle.

Ellie Stathaki
"Bay Watch," pg. 62

Founded to circulate ideas regarding style in homemaking and furnishing, over the years Domus—through its various editors—has explored a wide range of nuances in the fields of architecture, the applied arts, industrial design, art, urban planning, editorial and advertising graphics, digital communications, always with an international perspective.

Chiara Testoni
"Desert Architectures: Dwelling in the Uninhabitable"

GA Houses Project 2022 documents 50 unbuilt houses by 50 international architects.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Houses of the Trident 2.0"

Azure feature on Softie

Ushma Thakrar
"A Cloud-Like Refuge in California"

This book features 25 international projects which share a minimalist DNA.

Daniela Quartino, editor
"Softie"

Dezeen feature on Softie.

Natasha Levy
"OPA Designs Interior of Californian Home to Resemble Clouds"

Interior + Design is a Moscow based publication specializing in design, beauty, art, architecture, interiors, furniture, decor, and important trends in modern culture.

Natalia Postoeva
"Life in the Clouds," pp. 68-77

Our future-facing bi-monthly print publication comprehensively guides you through what's driving the spatial design industry today.

Rosamund Picton and Kourosh Newman-Zand
"Modern Stone Age," cover, pp. 66-79

French design journal dedicated to decoration, design and habitat.

Nathalie Dassa
"Living in the Clouds in California"

FREEYORK attempts to comprehensively cover all aspects of art, from fine art and architecture to product and graphic design.

Maggie Evans
"OPA’s Unique Home Hides A Beautiful Blue Interior"

HYPEANDHYPER is a design and lifestyle magazine covering innovation, urban life and creative ecosystems across Central and Eastern Europe.

Gyöngy Orsi
"Life in the clouds, A modernist house in California"

Designboom is a daily web magazine covering the fields of industrial design, architecture, and art internationally.

Myrto Katsikopoulou
"Vibrant Blue Interior Peeks Through Dense Facade in San Francisco 'Hidden House'"

Contemporist features great ideas from the world of design, architecture, interior design, furniture, lighting, and art.

Erin & Dave, editors
"The Wood Exterior Of This Home Hides A Remarkable Blue Staircase Inside"

iGNANT is an award-winning online magazine featuring the finest in art, design, photography, fashion and architecture.

Stephanie Wade
"Opa Architecture’s Softie, A One-Of-A-Kind Californian Home With Cloud-Like Formations"

GA Houses Project 2021 documents 45 unbuilt houses by 45 international architects.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Palisade"

Architectural Digest, the most beautiful houses in the world.

Maria Vittoria Capitanucci
"Tutto Scorre," pp. 64-68

Restless Living tells the stories behind some of the world’s greatest residential projects.

Christian Trampedach
"Softie Renovation," pp. 14-17

This book contains the latest projects of 24 selected Californian professionals.

Francesc Zamora Mola
"OPA," pp. 290-303

Frame comprehensively guides you through what's driving the spatial design industry today.

Tracey Ingram
"OPA Counteracts the Orthogonal Lines of a Modernist House in Mill Valley with a Daring Cloudlike Interior."

Architectural Digest, the most beautiful houses in the world.

Ksenia Oschchepkova
"Organic Makeover of a Modernist Home in California"

Designboom is a daily web magazine covering the fields of industrial design, architecture, and art internationally.

Kat Barandy
"with 'softie,' OPA sculpts a dwelling that is cavernous and cloud-like"

Wallpaper* is the world's number one global design destination, championing the best in architecture, interiors, fashion, art and contemporary lifestyle.

Pei-Ru Keh
"Cloud-like forms disrupt this modernist house in California"

GA Houses From Archive 2 documents 50 "distinctive masterpiece houses" by international architects between 2000-2020.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Shapeshifter," pp. 182-185

Interior + Design is a Moscow based publication specializing in design, beauty, art, architecture, interiors, furniture, decor, and important trends in modern culture.

Natalia Postoeva
"OPA Proposes a New Model for Sustainable Architecture," pp. 50-61

Designboom is a daily web magazine covering the fields of industrial design, architecture, and art internationally.

Kat Barandy
"OPA Designs Passive, High-performance 'Shapeshifter' House in the Desert Outside Reno"

GA Houses Project 2020 documents 50 unbuilt houses by 50 international architects.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Varial"

Villas, the Belgian luxury magazine for architecture and design lovers.

"The Shapeshifter House Nevada."

Dwell is a design and technology brand. It was launched with a magazine in September 2000 to bridge the gap between design professionals and enthusiasts.

Deborah Bishop
"Hiding in Plain Sight," pp. 56, 58, 60

GA Houses documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Softie," pp. 7-8, 34-47

From secluded houses in forests and luxury bunkers buried underground to cabins on remote islands and homes hidden in mountains. The series uses spectacular drone photography to explore the natural surroundings of each home and also ‘fly-through’ their interiors and secret passages to reveal what makes them unique. We meet the owners who explain why they wanted to live in such an unusual property and how they found their secluded plots.

Episode 3 features Hidden House

Häuser is a leading German magazine for Architecture & Design.

Klaus Meyer, "Hommage an Die Wüste"
pp. 80-87

From secluded houses in forests and luxury bunkers buried underground to cabins on remote islands and homes hidden in mountains. The series uses spectacular drone photography to explore the natural surroundings of each home and also ‘fly-through’ their interiors and secret passages to reveal what makes them unique. We meet the owners who explain why they wanted to live in such an unusual property and how they found their secluded plots.

Episode 2 features Shapeshifter

Wallpaper* 2019 Design Awards Issue. Features shortlisted projects in multiple categories.

"Best New Private House Shortlist," p. 125

Christie's International Real Estate feature on desert architecture.

Jonathan Bell
"Castles in the Sand: the Art of Desert Architecture"

Explore 400 of the world's most innovative and influential architect-designed houses created since the early 20th century. Houses: Extraordinary Living celebrates the incredible diversity and beauty of the house as never before, from Modernist icons to feats of technological, material, and spatial innovation in the 21st century.

Belle Place, editor
"Shapeshifter," pp. 346, 435

Founded in 1954, Interni Magazine is an indispensable tool for orientation in the world of interiors and product design.

Antonella Boisi
"More With Less," pp. 44-49

Western Art & Architecture magazine celebrates America's love affair with the Western visual arts. From the classic Western masters to contemporary trendsetters, Western Art & Architecture magazine features the best in art and architecture from Texas to the West Coast.

Norman Kolpas
"Protean Power," pp. 142-147

Featuring some of the world’s most innovative, extreme and ingenious urban interventions, The Contemporary House looks at the many ways in which modern residential design is integrated into the existing urban fabric. Every house represents a challenge, from new takes on traditional typologies through to radical proposals for unconventional sites. As well as the houses themselves, the book provides an insight into the conditions that shape the architecture of some of the world’s major cities, through recent history, signature styles and current conditions on the ground.

Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki
"Gallery House," pp. 36-39

GA Houses documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Softie," pp. 60-63

Founded in the 1950s as a small workshop, Minotti is now a global brand. The Magazine is Minotti's annual magazine.

Minotti Studio, editor
"A Mirage in the Desert," pp. 72-79

Judges' Awards Preview, featuring the shortlisted projects for Wallpaper's 2019 Design Awards. Judges include: Paola Antonelli, Neneh Cherry, Bjarke Ingels, David Korins, Philippe Malouin, and Do Ho Suh.

"Judges' Awards Preview," pg. 126

A sweeping survey of the contemporary house, and a reminder that we all have a lot more in common than might be expected. Surely because of the rise of the Internet as the most accessible form of information, talented and cosmopolitan architects are coming forward and building innovative, spectacular houses around the globe. Especially where houses are concerned, there is no longer a deep divide between developed and developing countries: great homes are being built everywhere by talented architects.

Philip Jodidio
"Shapeshifter," pp. 314-319

"Il Nuovo Saggiatore" is the bulletin of the Italian Society of Physics. It is a scientific journal which publishes news on recent studies of interest to the international physics community.

Zoë Prillinger and Luke Ogrydziak
"Nuclear Thresholds: Architectural Implications of Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile-1," pp. cover, 53-66

California Home + Design feature on five Bay Area architects.

Robyn Wise
"Five Bay Area women at the Forefront of Architecture."

A stunning anthology of contemporary houses that showcases the ways that architecture can respond to local urban challenges while enhancing modern city living. Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki have selected urban structures from around the world to serve as both exemplary solutions and standout works of art.

Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki
"Gallery House," pp. 36-39

Advances in Architectural Geometry (AAG) is a conference where both theoretical and practical work linked to new geometrical developments is presented. It involves architects, engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, software and algorithms designers and contractors. We aim at connecting researchers from architectural and engineering practices, academia and industry. AAG has become a reference both in research and in practice and is supported by the direct participation of the most renowned architectural design and engineering offices along with research laboratories.

Luke Ogrydziak and Zoë Prillinger
"Nuclear thresholds: Geometric strategies for flexible cord assemblies," pp. 256-272

Metropolis is an architecture and design-focused magazine published ten times per year.

Sam Lubell
"This Surprising San Francisco Residence Features a Hidden Bolt From the Blue"

Wallpaper* feature on desert architecture.

"Desert architecture: modern buildings in arid environments"
These manifestations of modern desert architecture reveal how design and material can combat the challenging climatic conditions of arid environments and extreme temperatures.

Uncrate feature on Shapeshifter.

"Shapeshifter House."

Dezeen feature on Shapeshifter.

Bridget Cogley
"Shapeshifter House by OPA emerges from Nevada site as a 'desert mirage'"

Dwell magazine is a smart, accessible publication dedicated to modern design. Each issue explores the myriad ways in which good design thinking can deliver a better life.

Sam Lubell
"Life Mimics Art," pp. 15, 78-87

GA Houses documents outstanding new residential architecture from all over the world. Included in each issue also are retrospective looks at residential works of the past which are now considered epoch-making.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"OPA ," pp. 8-9, 116-15

Architecture Element provides international case studies and interviews exploring the history of architectural elements worldwide. The first three volumes are (1) entrance, (2) stairs, and (3) roof.

Jinyoun Na, editor
pp. 30, 43, 48, 60-61, 94

Architecture Element provides international case studies and interviews exploring the history of architectural elements worldwide. The first three volumes are (1) entrance, (2) stairs, and (3) roof.

Jinyoun Na, editor
pp. 30, 43, 48, 60–61, 94

Architecture Element provides international case studies and interviews exploring the history of architectural elements worldwide. The first three volumes are (1) entrance, (2) stairs, and (3) roof.

Jinyoun Na, editor
pp. 39-40, 61-62. 109, 132

The View develops and advances women as leaders in the commercial real estate industry and business community.

Donna Schumacher
"SERC Women’s Locker Room Addition," pp. 18-19, 26

Mark magazine is a platform for the practice and perception of architecture at the dawn of the third millennium. Since its launch in 2005, the magazine has proven to be a timely, visual, non-academic publication full of first-hand information from creative people.

Katya Tylevich
"OPA Takes Cues From the Disparate Qualities of Daily Existence," pp. 83-101

The magazine of the American Institute of Architects.

Blaine Brownell
"Discovery, Mystery, and Transformation: Approaching Architectural Practice as a Narrative," posted November 30, 2017

A quarterly magazine about the University of Chicago faculty, alumni, students, and friends. Started in 1908.

Erin Hogan
"Elemental," pp. 34-35

Seasoned garden writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner, along with leading landscape photographer Marion Brenner, tour more than thirty-five private gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area, illuminating the unrivalled beauty of Northern California—the breadth of the sky, the quality of the light, the sparkle of the Bay, the shapes of the hills—that has beckoned landscape designers and gardeners for generations.

Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner
"Lenore Pereira and Rich Niles Garden," pp. 96-99

Korean design journal focusing on interiors, houses, and lifestyle.

Kim Hansu
"Gallery House," pp. 22-29

Design journal focusing on San Francisco, Marin, Napa, and Sonoma.

Zahid Sardar
"The Real Deal," pp. 1, 90-97

Bold and unconventional ideas are called for if the intention is to steer the debate on temporary accommodation for refugees in a new direction offering high-quality solutions. From eccentric experiments all the way to projects which have already been realised, international design teams present their work between the twin poles of unconventional developments and life-saving shelters in this compilation of case studies, Container and Modular Buildings.

Cornelia Dörries and Sarah Zahradnik
"Triskelion," pp. 32-39

The prestigious Emerging Voices Award was created in 1982 by the Architectural League of New York to showcase the work of early- to mid-career North American architects. Each year, through an invited competition, a jury selects practitioners or firms with a significant body of realized work that represents the best of its kind and has the potential to impact the future of architecture and landscape design. Emerging Voices 30 documents and critically assesses the first three decades of the League's Emerging Voices program.

Meredith Baber, editor
"OPA," pg. 283

The Fundamentals of Interior Architecture (second edition) offers an introduction to the key elements involved in the creation of aesthetically appealing and practically appropriate interior architecture. The new material in this highly illustrated second edition includes interviews with leading practitioners.

John Coles
"OPA," pp. 30, 34-35, 88, 92, 124-125, 154-155

SFC&G is a San Francisco architecture and design publication.

Frances Homan Jue
"Oil and Canvas," pp. cover, 50-57

This richly illustrated book is intended as an opportunity for both current and prospective architects to ponder and explore everything from fundamental to trivial questions about architecture. What is architecture? What does an architect do? Nineteen ordinary architects and offices from around the world are asked to define who and what an architect is, offering pieces of wisdom, examples of their work, sound advice and personal anecdotes with which readers can build a bigger picture of the discipline.

Yeon Kyeong Choo, editor
"Who is OPA?" pp. 255-273

Mark magazine is a platform for the practice and perception of architecture at the dawn of the third millennium. Since its launch in 2005, the magazine has proven to be a timely, visual, non-academic publication full of first-hand information from creative people.

Arthur Wortmann, editor
"Shapeshifter," pg. 15

Annual special issue and exhibition of 50 international residential projects.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Shapeshifter," pp. 184-187

Fast Company has a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, and design.

Adele Peters
"Safer Crossings," pg. 50

The Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices Award spotlights North American individuals and firms with distinct design “voices” that have the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. The jury reviews significant bodies of realized work and considers accomplishments within the design and academic communities. The work of each Emerging Voice represents the best of its kind, and addresses larger issues within architecture, landscape, and the built environment.

Anne Rieselbach, interviewer
"OPA"

Harvard University Graduate School of Design has always recognized the indispensable importance and values of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design, yet has transcended their individual aspirations through intellectual cross-fertilization and collaboration. The material presented in this publication forms a small part of the incredible range and diversity of proposals and visions that the GSD students and faculty have produced during the past academic year.

Rosetta S. Elkin, editor
"Shapeshifter," pp. 328-335

This volume presents the findings of years of research into container architecture, showcasing a wealth of projects with full-color photographs, detailed commentaries and resource lists.

Jure Kotnik
"Triskelion," pp. 246-255

Proceedings from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 100th Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

Luke Ogrydziak
"The Solaris Mirror," pp. 154-160

Mark magazine is a platform for the practice and perception of architecture at the dawn of the third millennium. Since its launch in 2005, the magazine has proven to be a timely, visual, non-academic publication full of first-hand information from creative people.

Arthur Keuning, editor
"Dune," pg. 14

Annual special issue and exhibition of 50 international residential projects.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Dune," pp. 106-109

Notwithstanding the many prophets of doom that see solid, sedentary architecture sacrificed to mobile lifestyles, architects continue to take up the challenge and design portable houses. The results are often both practical and innovative, as is demonstrated on the more than 800 pages of this new title in the Construction and Design Manual series, in which 43 international design teams present works ranging from architectural follies to handicapped accessible furnishings and life-saving shelters.

Suh Kyongwon, editor
"Triskelion," pp. 528-539

Architectural Record is an American monthly magazine that is dedicated to architecture and interior design. Published by BNP Media, it is generally considered "The Record" of Architectural History.

Joann Gonchar
"Triskelion," pg. 94

This volume explores approximately 60 attic projects, as extensions, conversions, or new construction, which utilize the previously used storage space for new use. Existing buildings are expanded upwards and adapted to the contemporary desires and demands of their use. Some constitute a homogenous extension of the existing facade and augment the view in a barely noticeable way. Others use the design freedom above the eave height in order to create a 21st century architecture which contrasts with the historical building substance.

Manuela Roth
"Honighaus," pp. 293-301

This volume, conceived as a reference book, extensively presents works by renowned scale model studios. On more than 1,000 pages it showcases architectural models of avant-garde architects and designers from all over the world.

OPA
"Models," pp. 22-23, 648-653

7x7 is a city-living-focused fashion, lifestyle, food, culture, opinion and entertainment digital, print, mobile, social, commerce and events activation platform, covering the San Francisco Bay Area.

Katherine Krause
"Skyscrapers," pp. 72-77

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) is an international network of digital design researchers and professionals. We facilitate critical investigations into the role of computation in architecture, planning, and building science, encouraging innovation in design creativity, sustainability, and education.

Luke Ogrydziak
"Tetrahedron Cloud," pp. 284-291

Annual special issue and exhibition of 50 international residential projects.

Yukio Futagawa, editor
"Loop," pp. 196-199

San Francisco is an American monthly magazine devoted to the people, culture, food, politics, and arts of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Diane Dorrans Saeks
"In Theory," pp. 94-105

This volume, conceived as a reference book, extensively presents works by renowned international architects. On more than 1,000 pages it showcases renovation projects of avant-garde architects and designers from all over the world.

Seonwook Kim, editor
"OPA: Honighaus, Co-op, ECA," 874-909

Although flexible modes of living draw on an age-old tradition and a wide variety of cultures, recent changes in living conditions and technical advances have greatly increased the relevance of flexibility. As working and private lives increasingly overlap, a mobile lifestyle becomes more important. Today, more than ever, people are seeking a way of living which is not tied to fixed patterns and predetermined locations.

Seonwook Kim and Miyoung Pyo, editors
"Triskelion," pp. 528-539

HÄUSER is a leading German magazine for architecture and design.

Christopher Hawthorne
"House of Art," pp. 5-6, 92-98

Metropolis is a monthly magazine about architecture and design, with a focus on sustainability. It is based in New York and has been published since 1981.

Lydia Lee
"Random Acts of Architecture," pp. cover, 56-63, 83

The New York Times is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

Pilar Viladas (in Domesticities)
"Park Place"

The dream buildings in this book reflect a changing architectural and cultural environment, and the processes that turn these concepts from vision to reality will open a new chapter in architectural history.

Xing Rihan, editor
"OPA," pp. 270-285

This volume, conceived as a reference book, extensively presents works by renowned scale model studios. On more than 1,000 pages it showcases architectural models of avant-garde architects and designers from all over the world.

OPA
"Models," pp. 22-23, 648-653

Sunset is a lifestyle magazine in the United States. Sunset focuses on homes, cooking, gardening, and travel, with a focus almost exclusively on the Western United States.

Allison Arieff
"Stage Set," pg. 58

IDEAT est un magazine lifestyle qui s'adresse à tous ceux qui trouvent leur personnalité dans toutes les formes de création.

Jean-Michel de Alberti
"San Francisco: Une Energie Fertile," pg. 252

California Home+Design is a multi-platform media brand that covers home, architecture, products, art and lifestyle stories throughout the state of California.

Lydia Lee
"Architects of Geometry," pg. 90

Wallpaper* is a publication focusing on design and architecture, fashion, travel, art and lifestyle.

Jonathan Bell and Ellie Stathaki
"Architects Directory 2008," pp. 91-104

Framework is a quarterly publication of the University of California Berkeley College of Environmental Design.

Luke Ogrydziak and Zoë Prillinger
"Latent Form," pp. 14-15

This volume in a series about young architects introduces readers to the projects of 50 young and innovative architects throughout the Americas.

Erin Cullerton, editor
"OPA," pp. 258-263

Annual special issue and exhibition of 50 international residential projects.

Yuko Futagawa, editor
"Conway House," pp. 12-15

The successor to the popular guide book, Architecture and Design: SF (1998), this traveler's companion covers the best in classic and contemporary architecture throughout the Bay Area.

Mitchell Schwarzer
"T House, Hundred Foot House," pp. 57, 158

Architectural Record is an American monthly magazine that is dedicated to architecture and interior design. Published by BNP Media, it is generally considered "The Record" of Architectural History.

Robert Ivy, editor
"A Memory of Pompeii captured in concrete," pg. 198

Created for the challenges that face people living in small spaces, The Magic of Small Spaces is a cleverly illustrated book that takes a look at contemporary places where people live that are small.

Oscar Asensio, editor
"Double Bar House," pp. 59-61

San Francisco is an American monthly magazine devoted to the people, culture, food, politics, and arts of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Alan Rapp
"The Conceptualists," pp. 146-151

Annual special issue and exhibition of 50 international residential projects.

Yoshio Futagawa, editor
"Double Bar House," pp. 59-61