A famous American architect once said that the mother art is architecture, and without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilisation. The profound (and extremely exciting) reality is that the spaces that we see in these HOMEWORKS architectural issues are a snapshot of our generation, of the now. So if we take the homes featured in this issue and analyse their similarity, albeit in different ways, all three display an encapsulation of customised architectural design detail that is so accommodating to the inhabitant that there is very little need for further interior design.