IN APRIL 2020, in the annual Record Houses issue, this column discussed the challenges of home-the physical and psychological space where so many of us were in lockdown as the pandemic raged. It was at home that we were learning to isolate, to work and study remotely, to expand our use of digital tools, and to replace a sense of real community with a virtual one. Now, 12 months later, we are beginning to exhale, with vaccine rollouts and businesses, schools, and other institutions starting to reopen-though in many places, as tentatively as the green shoots poking up in gardens and parks. And, once again this year, we bring you Record Houses, a half dozen innovative responses to the idea of home, scattered around the world from Japan to Mexico, from Peru to New Zealand, and across America, from the Oregon coast to the East End of Long Island (page 57). Each of the architects who designed these houses, from the modest to the spectacular, thoughtfully considered the site, whether on a tight urban plot or along a rugged stretch of coastline exposed to the weather. And each took the opportunity to play not only with form but experiment with materials, from wood and weathering steel to thatch and cork.
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