Interest in technology, economic necessity, pol tica action, the longing for solitude, or the environmental imperative are some of las motivations that drive the contemporary rise of m architecture. Pragmatic or utopian, prefabricated or artisanal, urban or located in the middle of virgin nature, these initiatives seem to respond to a common need, which can also be interpreted as pleasure: the persistent (and muy human) search for personal expressions of the home.