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Building the Pentimento House

David Barragan and Jose Maria Saez call their Pentimento House "an architecture to be naked to connect with its surroundings." Built using a new, Lego-like modular prefab system the two architects developed, the Quito, Ecuador, project is featured in our December/January 2013 issue on newsstands November 27. Here, we share a slideshow of the house under construction and a sneak peek of the finished product.

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The Pentimento House in Quito, Ecuador, is made from concrete modules that function like Lego blocks.

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written by:
Diana Budds
November 16, 2012

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