A vibrantly colored house in suburban Milwaukee projects shades of summer all year long.

A Bay Area firm creates a customized mountain retreat for outdoorsy clients.

When architects—or politicians, for that matter—speak of walls, they usually see them as boundaries dividing one place from another.

Urban dwellings can feel highly compartmentalized, composed of segregated levels.

The flat, overhanging roof of the new house echoes the horizontal composition of the original modernist house, meant to evoke the vast Los Angeles horizon.

With this modern rammed-earth house, the architect’s aim was to ignite the community’s interest in a sustainable building typology characteristic of the region. 

When music executive Joe Galante retired from his post as chairman of Sony Music Nashville in 2010, he and his wife, Phran, were ready to shed their frenetic, high-profile lifestyle.