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ANDALUSIAN PATIO HOUSES
Andalusian patio houses
Light, geometry, and coolness
By: Clara Serrano Vega - claraserranovega@gmail.com
In southern Spain, where the sun never hides and the
summer is long and dry, an architecture was born that is
both resilient and beautiful. The Andalusian patio hou-
ses did not emerge from an aesthetic whim, but from a
vital need: how to create shade, air, coolness, privacy,
and community in a land bathed in light.
What we see today as a gem of traditional architecture
is, in reality, the crystallisation of centuries of popular wis-
dom, of overlapping legacies, of historical layers fused
together in a solution that is as functional as it is beautiful.
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