MAGAZINES AND BOOKS CREATED BY ARCHITECTS FOR ARCHITECTS
About Us
House Details is a technical publication, created by architects for architects.
The result of considerable effort and care across multiple levels, it delivers the most comprehensive house-focused publications worldwide.
Unprecedented Trust
All architects featured — including Pritzker Prize laureates such as Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and Kengo Kuma — have, in an extraordinary act of trust, provide House Details with complete project files in CAD (digital) format.
This is an entirely unprecedented gesture, for which we are deeply and sincerely grateful.
House Details has a highly specialised team, composed exclusively of architects. Every team member is an active professional with over 25 years of experience in architectural practice.
In several cases, the House Details architectural team produces technical drawings with the generous permission of the featured architects.
Publications of Maximum Precision and Rigour
Each publication is the result of meticulous, exhaustive and complex work, aimed at providing the reader with the best possible understanding.
Every edition contains hundreds of scale technical drawings — particularly construction details — each crafted in a unique way, accompanied by many other forms of content that require at least 2,000 hours of work (in some cases, significantly more).
A House Details publication is always a symbol of the highest level of precision and accuracy achievable.
At House Details, we produce the most detailed technical architectural publications available — both in quantity and in scale — ranging from 1:100 to 1:2 or even 1:1. They are true working tools for architects.
Photographs are usually taken by our team. Even when provided by studios or external photographers, they are combined with our own detail and site photography, resulting in a selection that ranges from 800 to several thousand images.
We then carefully curate these to once again deliver an exclusive product to you.
Printing a House Details publication is more expensive than producing a standard hardcover book, due to its format (which allows drawings to be viewed to scale).
We invest in printing tests — carried out on offset presses (!) — equal in cost to the printing of some books, so that we can deliver only the best.
Our team even uses microscope cameras to detect printing flaws in the technical drawings (see the photos in our 2023 Christmas video on Instagram).
Social Mission
House Details has had a social mission since day one, from the moment of its foundation.
The social mission is a fundamental part of House Details; the continuation of the publishing house would be impossible without this philosophy. For more information, please refer to the "Social Mission" page on this websit
Constant innovation
Among many other innovations: House Details was the first publication in the world to include selected drawings from engineering and specialist disciplines (water supply, drainage, electricity, etc., up to a maximum of 10%) to ensure a full understanding of the architectural project (90%).
Thanks to our team's technical training, House Details has even produced engineering drawings on occasion.
Our books and magazines were also the first to integrate location-marked detail and contextual photographs directly into technical drawings — allowing you to fully immerse yourself in the architectural projects and understand them with maximum clarity.
With the Collector’s Edition of House Details 5, it was the first time worldwide that an architecture publisher launched a collector’s version of a magazine. In 2019, we launched — for the first time — an architecture magazine complete with a box and multiple "extras".
These and many other innovations have marked the sector. We maintain a steadfast commitment to originality and editorial quality.
Relentless Dedication
A single House Details publication can take years to complete.
With considerable effort, we dedicate the time and resources necessary to ensure you receive the very best product we can offer.
House Details is part of Técnica Livraria (architecture-specialised bookshop). This space provides the entire team with access to the latest technical innovations.
Thank you very much for being with us. Warm regards from the whole team, with our best wishes for your success in every aspect of life.
The Editor
We are transparent and honest in our texts and slogans. Unfortunately, we see them unfairly copied, both in our country and abroad, in the fields of architecture and book design alike. We ask for your support in recognising and valuing originality and authenticity.