Architecture — Interior — Landscape
Form as construction. Light as structure.
An international practice based in Valencia. Architecture, interior design and landscape across Spain, China, Egypt, Middle East and Bali.
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Architecture — Interior — Landscape
An international practice based in Valencia. Architecture, interior design and landscape across Spain, China, Egypt, Middle East and Bali.
Balzar Arquitectos is an author practice founded in Valencia in 2018. We work internationally across architecture, interior design and landscape. Our work is grounded in a rigorous discipline of form: proportion, mass, light and material as the instruments of a timeless spatial language.
The studio
Observation — 2026
The same material does not behave the same way in two different places. This seems obvious stated plainly, but architecture consistently ignores it — choosing stone, timber, or concrete for their visual properties rather than for what they do in specific climatic and geological conditions. Limestone in Valencia is pale, porous, warm to the touch […]
Essay — 2026
There is a category of building that refuses the condition of the object. Rather than sitting on the ground, presenting itself to a view, declaring its presence against the sky, it disappears into the terrain. It is approached from above. It reveals itself through descent. Its facades, if they exist at all, face down rather […]
Reference — 2026
In 1953, the photographer Lucien Hervé visited the Abbey of Le Thoronet, a twelfth-century Cistercian monastery in the Var region of Provence. He was not an architect. He had been a painter and a journalist; his architectural photography had begun only a few years earlier, when Le Corbusier saw his photographs of the Unité d’Habitation […]
Europe
Spain
Valencia · Madrid · Málaga · Alicante
East Asia
China
Hangzhou · Sichuan · Inner Mongolia
Middle East & Africa
Gulf & Egypt
El Gouna · Kuwait · Saudi Arabia
Southeast Asia
Indonesia
Bali · Canggu
Occasional notes on projects in progress, ideas worth sharing, and what the studio is thinking about.
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