Enamored of historical building techniques, John Byers embraced California's early heritage. Born in Michigan in 1875 after the Civil War, the transplant to sunny Santa Monica understood the delicious ...

Built into the mountainside in Henderson, NV, this new 7,600-square-foot residence by studio g ARCHITECTURE offers 270-degree views, expansive glass walls, and modern desert design inspired by the ...

To ensure you don’t miss a thing – and to showcase the scope of residential architecture today – we’ve launched a monthly ...

Each week in the early 1950s, an entire page of the Los Angeles Times was devoted to announcements by religious institutions about their offerings. A vast array of possibilities was available, ranging ...

Eric Strain founded his Las Vegas architecture firm, assemblageSTUDIO, on April Fool’s Day in 1997. It was the perfect time, he says: “Nobody thought this thing would last.” A maverick architect ...

Good architecture, most often, seems to be not the result of theoretical pretensions or grand ambitions but simply the product of talented architects with cheap materials, inventive ideas and some ...

Program: Two generations of a family assembled a tract of land along the Phoenix Mountain Preserve and agreed to build adjacent residences—one to the east, for middle-aged parents, with two primary ...

As you can imagine, life in the desert has its challenges. Still, that doesn’t mean it’s any less pleasant to live out there than it is to have a hillside house in the middle of a forest. This ...

In the fall of 2009, city buses rumbled through Rome plastered with close-ups of a windblown Zaha Hadid, promoting the opening of her National Museum of XXI Century Arts. MAXXI, as it is called, was ...

The now-retired and AIA emerita architect Louise Brodman has been coming to Maine with her husband since she was in her early thirties. She recalls the first visit: Arriving after Labor Day as the sun ...

Designed by the visionary modernist architect in the late 1950s, the Hollywood Hills home has undergone a makeover and is now ...