A growing family enhances the original features of their historic home with playful, inventive touches—including an underground...

Mathias Klotz’s first project, a deceptively simple bayfront house in Chile was commissioned by his mom on a shoestring budget.

The Blue Sky prototype home tiptoes gracefully across the desert landscape just north of Joshua Tree National Park.

With this elegant steel prototype, Marmol Radziner and Associates launch a new prefab venture with the goal of bringing their...

Designed with locally sourced stone and red-tinted cement, this coastal retreat effortlessly blends into its surrounding...

A Canadian family’s getaway in the California desert.

From a powder-coated milled steel fire bowl to Japanese sconce, these products will look great beside the desert landscape.

A design dream team connects a 1980s dwelling to its spectacular site in Paradise Valley, Arizona

Designed to amplify connections with the desert, a low-lying courtyard house nestles into the landscape.

Jim Murren’s prefab house in Sin City, designed by Marmol Radziner, is as artful as it is art-filled, thanks to an asymmetrical...

Architect Lloyd Russell’s design for this desert getaway passively mitigates the elements with a utilitarian solution, turning a...

These homes make living in the heat of the desert look easy, breezy, and cool.

Conceived as an extension of the Arizona landscape, this eco-friendly, modern house approaches near net-zero energy consumption.

Tucked into the urban grid, a 340-square-foot grain silo becomes an unexpected desert oasis that overcomes several design...

In Puebla, Mexico, two local architecture firms team up to create the Saint Peter House—a striking brick home with a unique,...

Designed and remodeled by 56.02, B8 House features glass-cube bedrooms that privilege the wild landscape.

Spanning a desert wash, a modern residence in Arizona embraces its natural surroundings with minimal impact.

The dream of desert modernism is alive and well in these modern homes.

Yurts inspire nature-immersed ideas of escaping the trappings of urban living—usually while enjoying cool breezes, icy beverages,...

Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball, and Frank Sinatra were just a few of the notable homeowners in Rancho Mirage, a desert resort just...

The Ranch Mine partners with two equally creative homeowners to build a forward-thinking property on an unconventional lot.

A former bodega becomes a loft-like residence that honors its commercial past.

The barren beauty of a desert landscape can be a source of inspiration for off-the-grid prefab living.

Two Los Angeles designers resuscitate a down-at-the-heel John Lautner building—and give architecture fans a chance to spend the...

Constructed in harmony with the expansive vistas and valleys that surround it, Ridge Mountain Residence plays up the beauty of...

Set amidst the scenic scrubland of Oregon’s high desert, this elegant home has interior sliding panels that can be manipulated to...

These modern desert homes match their locations with equally impressive design.

Architect William Morgan designed this distinctive, triangular house in Atlantic Beach, Florida, which is now selling for $1.75...

Perched on picturesque Echo Mountain in Phoenix, this Wendell Burnette-designed desert home featured from our Indoor Outdoor...

With his use of simplified geometric shapes and white concrete forms, Le Corbusier brought cubism to architecture.

Perhaps the ultimate Airbnb, Le Chacuel in Yucca Valley is a minimalist retreat recently renovated by its design-minded owners.

This dark Yucca Valley home tricks the eye through clever use of light and shadow.

Built at the turn of the 19th century, this villa in Budapest has been remodeled with bold and colorful, pop art-inspired...

Building a successful home in the desert means being conscious of the region's elements and understanding both the challenges and...

Whether you’re selling a hillside Neutra or a modest carpeted condo, home staging has become the norm in today’s uber-competitive...

An art-filled retreat fits right into the landscape.