Casa Mexicana: An Introduction to Mexico’s Most Inspiring Contemporary Residences
Casa Mexicana showcases the finest contemporary homes across Mexico, blending brutalist strength with local craftsmanship.
Mexico’s domestic architecture has never been shy—but over the past decade it has shifted from colourful bravado to a subtler, materials-led poetics. Concrete, earth, straw and volcanic stone are wielded not as nostalgic tropes but as living instruments that temper glare, funnel breezes and encode memory, giving form to a renewed social contract between landscape, craft and the modernist line that runs from Barragán to Bilbao.
The Casa Mexicana collection charts this evolution with uncommon breadth, moving from urban infill to remote sanctuaries. Thirty-plus residences—ever expanding—demonstrate how young offices test space, climate and ritual while established studios keep unpicking the meaning of domesticity. The result is a mosaic of strategies rather than a single national style; many answers to the perennial question: what makes a house Mexican?
Nestled in the rugged hills of Morelia, Mexico, the House on the Hill by HW Studio presents itself not as a declaration, but as a murmur—an architectural whisper shaped by memory, protection, and terrain.
Mexican architecture firm Tatiana Bilbao has designed Casa Ajijic, a summer house on Chapala Lake in Jalisco, Mexico.
The Alférez House in Cañada de Alferes, Mexico, designed by Ludwig Godefroy Architecture, is a remarkable blend of the romantic notion of a cabin and the protective element of a fortress.
In the small coastal town of La Punta Zicatela, Oaxaca in Mexico—where Pacific light bends through salt air and jungle humidity—Ludwig Godefroy’s Casa TO emerges like a mirage of contemplative mass.
In the forested hills of Valle de Bravo, a few hours from Mexico City, Copas House by PPAA unfolds as a vertical narrative in dialogue with the landscape.
Gruta House in Valladolid, Mexico by Salvador Román Hernández and Adela Mortéra Villarreal is a sculptural home that blurs the line between nature and architecture, evoking Yucatán’s ancient geology.
Discover Casa Mexicana, a growing collection of remarkable homes across Mexico. Available with your Thisispaper+ subscription, it invites you to explore the future of living—one house at a time.