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 ...

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 ...

The birth of desert modernism can be traced back to some fine print. In the early and mid-20th century, Hollywood’s rigid studio system reportedly kept some of its biggest stars contractually bound to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A potted creosote plant she brought back from Arizona brings the smell of the desert into her New York apartment. My family moved to Tucson from Colorado when I was in high school, and it was the ...

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

Modernism Week takes place Feb. 15-25 and offers an array of fun, unique and compelling events. The speaker series and films (held at the Annenberg Theater and the theater at CAMP in the Hyatt hotel ...

Not even epic rain and gray skies can diminish the sun-kissed Midcentury Modern architecture on display at Modernism Week in Palm Springs, the annual celebration of 20th century design highlighted by ...