With a small budget, an open mind, and perhaps a little help from your friends, there's nothing stopping you from building your...

A chicken coop, a mobile sauna, and a sugar shack are just a few of the "rural interventions" built by architecture students in...

There are as many solutions to the country’s housing crisis as there are causes. We need them all.

This vibrant remodel of a run-down London home proves that high design can be achieved on a low budget.

There's still enough time this summer to do a little DIY and build an outdoor shower in your yard.

We spoke with architect Eric Cobb about the process behind building a floating home.

Explore Ecospace Studio's modular buildings that serve a variety of valuable purposes.

A California beach community rallies around a well-considered addition to its laid-back streets.

In upstate New York, two families unite to design a vacation house that will suit all their needs for years to come.

Suzanne Shelton’s life work is making sustainable lifestyles attractive and accessible.

The only things more explosive than Fourth of July fireworks are these amazing sales on bedding, mattresses, appliances, home...

Architect Mathieu Levesque adds an office to his family’s Brisbane property with plans to renovate when his firm, LADA, grows out...

Preview the Editor’s Letter from our January/February issue, written by Dwell founder and CEO Lara Deam.

Read the Editor’s Letter from our upcoming November/December edition and look for the issue on newsstands in the first week of...

It has been nearly half a decade, but the Dwell Home II is back! Construction began this winter in the hills outside Los Angeles,...

Read the Editor’s Letter from our upcoming September/October edition and look for the issue on newsstands in the first week of...

A retired couple looking to downsize find the solution right in their backyard.

A young couple on the move build a small home that will go wherever life takes them.

Since 1967, part of the Yale School of Architecture’s first year curriculum is to provide New Haven with structures and housing...

Offering unbelievable views, Fuglemyrhytta is a pentagonal cabin that can sleep up to 10 lucky hikers.

The UK’s Worthing Council partners with IKEA and BoKlok to bring 162 low-cost modular homes to the English seaside town.

Long before a 3,500-square-foot home stood on this secluded 12-acre site, this land was just a favorite campsite for two New...

With a portfolio that includes some of San Francisco’s Painted Ladies, Phil Schinman was up to the challenge of a home’s shocking...

In Stone Age tools, architect Craig Dykers sees a bridge from humanity’s ancient past to our high-tech present.

Mill Valley, California, might not be a hotbed of modernism, but it was here, ten years ago, that Dwell came into the world...

In coastal New England, an artist turns a wooded property into a haven for creating and living.

A Vancouver garden blossoms alongside fresh development.

The London architect tries “to show people that affordability can mean many things”—and his many fans think he’s succeeding.

A pair of empty nesters call on their architect daughter to create a home that fulfills their retirement wish list.

The studio, a dream getaway for a busy mother and doula, is set in the woods of British Columbia.

Taking its cues from local barns and silos and the rolling Wisconsin terrain, the Field House is a kind of modern observatory for...

In the 2010s, design/build programs were the cutting edge of architectural education.

Brian Papa, Oliver Freundlich, and Ben Bischoff met their first year at the Yale School of Architecture, when they found...

An increasing number of contributors to our ever-expanding built world are referring to their practices as design-build.

Ondo is a minimal house located in Tokyo, Japan, designed by MAMM DESIGN.

Green design should have won 30 years ago.