ENG Rolph Blakstad son did not grow up in a normal house. It was old and chaotic. It looked like a series of overlapping rectangles in apparent disarray. It had thick, whitewashed walls and on the ceilings there were large tree trucks that acted as beams. It was an Ibicencan house. Rolph Blakstad father was obsessed with these humble homes. He spent his whole life studying, restor-ing and building them. He expressed all this knowledge in La casa eivissenca. Claus d’una tradició millenària (The Ibicencan House. Keys to a Millenary Tradition) (Olañeta) a book in which he reveals the secrets of this traditional architecture. Not only did Blakstad write down the oral tradition of Ibicencan architecture, he also put it into historical and international context, relating these constructions inherited from the Phoenicians with the Neolithic sites in Turkey. ‘My father wasn’t the first person to suggest it, but he was the most determined’, affirms Blakstad during a telephone conversation. Blakstad father wasn’t an architect, he was a scenographer. He searched for exotic locations for the national television of his country, Canada. He used to travel around the Mediterranean, comparing the different little white houses that © Conrad White / Estefany Vargas Casa del estudio Blakstad. // House from the Blakstad Studio.