AR December 2023/January 2024: The artist’s house + AR House

This issue showcases the projects included in this year’s AR House shortlist, from modular furniture and semi-temporary housing to retrofits in Kyoto, São Paulo and Copenhagen. In the rest of the issue, we turn to the artist’s house – a type of home with a unique set of functions and associations. It can form a Gesamtkunstwerk – a large‑scale spatial representation of an entire creative world. It is also often fetishised and painstakingly preserved, and turned, eventually, into a tourist attraction after the inhabitant’s death. In the six revisits of artists’ homes featured in this issue, the myth of the artist – the aspirational figure of an autonomous and creatively fulfilled individual – lingers on long after they are gone.