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Augspach Architecture was started by Rodolfo Pedro Augspach as a setting for real sustainable architecture to power through today’s marketing standards.

12/08/2026

Most clients think they can outperform the market. Build more space for less money. Most are wrong.

The Maison Latapie by Lacaton & Vassal is the exception, and not for the reason you've heard. The cheap industrial materials are the visible half of the story. The invisible half: a house designed to expand in summer and contract in winter, where the shutter is not an accessory but the façade itself. You cannot cut from the budget what holds the building up.

This Sunday I'm breaking down the house, the philosophy of "always add," where I think it fails, and why my own practice can't copy it. One of the reasons is the client.

Live Sunday August 16, 21:30 Brussels time, on YouTube. Link in bio.

26/06/2026

We don't stop caring about people because we're worse people. We stop because there's only so much we can hold.
Space works the same way. A small space, you take ownership of it without thinking. A massive one, you don't, and it's not because you're careless, it's because nobody can hold that much at once.
This is the gap most housing skips entirely: no transition between 'mine' and 'everyone's,' just public and private slammed together. More on the missing middle in this week's newsletter, link in bio.

21/05/2026

Most modern buildings try to isolate us completely from climate.

Ryue Nishizawa does the opposite.

In House in Shochikucho and Moriyama House, circulation becomes something in-between:
neither fully inside nor outside.

Instead of treating corridors as wasted space, these projects turn movement through the house into a climatic experience.

Light.
Wind.
Temperature.
Season.

I explored this idea in my latest newsletter issue:
“Comfort Gradients.”

Comment “comfort” and I’ll send you the link.

15/05/2026

This house has NO corridors!

You must negotiate the outdoors.

Ryue Nishizawa designed the Moriyama House as a collection of separate rooms connected through gardens and patios instead of corridors.

Which means every transition is exposed to:
Rain.
Wind.
Temperature.

Comfort here isn’t controlled.

It emerges as you move.

Comment comfort and I’ll send you the newsletter link where I break down architecture, climate and thermal comfort.












22/04/2026

Most architects try to eliminate discomfort.

This house does the opposite.

Instead of one stable interior, it creates a gradient of conditions
where some spaces are controlled
and others are allowed to fluctuate.

Not inside.
Not outside.
Something in between.

And the kitchen?

In the unconditioned space!

Because comfort isn’t fixed
it’s something we negotiate as we move.

Comment comfort and I’ll send you my upcoming design guideline.

📸 Ryue Nishizawa (Source Leibal)

🎶 “Japanese Nostalgia” by

15/04/2026

Corridors are disappearing.

For decades, we designed homes around circulation.
Space you pay for… just to move through.

Now that space is being absorbed into the rooms.
Every square meter starts doing something.

But there’s a trade-off.

Would you accept accessing your bedroom directly from your living room?
Or do you prefer a smaller space… with a corridor?

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02/04/2026

It’s not.

It’s about trade-offs.

Make one space better… another one gets worse.

And one of the biggest misconceptions?

It’s not about grouping wet rooms.
It’s about stacking them.

That’s where most projects start to fall apart
especially on the ground and top floors.

Form follows comfort.

Comment “process” and I’ll send you how I approach this.












28/03/2026

I just hate how much I love this building.

I’ve spent years arguing against glass towers.
They ignore climate. They rely on systems.

And yet… this one got me.

There’s something in the way it handles light that feels almost alive.

Would you accept this trade-off?

Comment "daylight" and I’ll send you my guide.

📸Marc Simmons, Lidija Bondarenko, architecture p**n, Rhododentries, wikipedia & archdaily.

🎶"Japanese Nostalgia" by the fabulous

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