The New Mediterranean

For decades the Mediterranean interior was exported as a costume: blue shutters, terracotta, a rustic table. What is emerging now is quieter and considerably more rigorous — an architecture of shade, mass and cross-ventilation.

“The climate was always the architect. We are only relearning how to listen.”

The materials have not changed. Lime, stone, timber, plaster. What has changed is the confidence to leave them unornamented.