This selection showcases residential design that demonstrate ways of fitting into disparate contexts, utilizing local materials, and exploring differing building techniques.

Mork-Ulnes Architects replaces a Sonoma house damaged by wildfire with an armored yet open retreat.

The Milwaukee-based firm builds adaptability into a Sacramento developer's own residential property.

Blee Halligan’s rigid volumes set amid lush gardens are a nod to the provincial English location’s industrial past.

Thom Mayne and his wife, Blythe Alison-Mayne, have tucked their house within a well-planted slice of L.A.

For a family home in west-central Mexico, a design team combines traditional craft and innovative technique.

A new video tour of this sinuously shaped house on an island in the Aegean now accompanies RECORD's project story.

Manuel Cervantes Estudio fits a weekend house sensitively into the earth in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

The sudden demolition of Marcel Breuer’s influential 1945 Geller House is symptomatic of the larger trend of disappearing midcentury modern homes and the informal lifestyles they promoted.