Broken up into six pavilions, this brutalist Mexican house is embedded in the landscape

Sep 14, 2025
Rancho del Bosque by Sordo Madaleno, a brutalist house in Valle de Bravo composed of six concrete pavilions embedded in the forested hillside landscape.
Edmund Sumner

“The combination of the views and the topography have shaped a house that feels deeply integrated into its surroundings. As Sordo Madaleno notes, ‘The house is divided into module-like pavilions making the experience about being immersed in the surrounding nature, rather than simply being in a house within nature.”