David Cohn is a Madrid-based architecture critic and international correspondent for Architectural Record. His latest book, Spain: Modern Architectures in History, was released in 2025.
Designed by local architect Jose Fernández-Llebrez, this understated multifamily home contains three apartments on four floors for a couple and the families of their two adult children.
The timber structure features branching columns and intricate joinery inside a 19th-century stable ruin, highlighting the school’s learn-by-doing approach.
The Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos co-founder details the firm’s first American commission: an expansion of the Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed Dallas Museum of Art.