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Shigeru Ban Designs Temporary, Easy-to-Build Shelters for Disaster-Prone Areas
Responding to the displacement caused by Typhoon Haiyan, architect Shigeru Ban designed a series of easy-to-build prefab shelters...
Should We Keep Living in Disaster-Prone Areas?
After a year of ecological calamity, experts wrestle with whether or not we should rebuild in risky areas—and who will pay for it...
Q&A with Japanese Architect Shigeru Ban
The Japanese architect—and winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize—is working with Muji on a new endeavor: using furniture as a module...
7 Inspiring Solutions For Disaster Relief Housing
Inspired by a builder's response to the devastating wildfires across California, we're taking a look at seven recent designs for...
Delta Shelter
Outlook Shelter
Go Easy
Extreme Shelter
Living ecological alpine pods in the Italian Alps.
Shelter Island Retreat
The Sleeve House
Shelter From the Storm
After three years of legal wrangling, a Raleigh couple find peace in their modern dream home.
Shelter Island Pool House
10 Tiny Homes You Can Build
With a small budget, an open mind, and perhaps a little help from your friends, there's nothing stopping you from building your...
Three Friends Join Forces to Build a Four-Gable Getaway on Shelter Island
The creek-front communal beach house is made of four structures connected by a glass hallway.
Hotel Mono
Build a Breezy A-Frame Shelter With These DIY Kits by Artist Jay Nelson
Each kit comes with a miniature model, two prints, and plans for building a shady backyard shelter in about a weekend’s time.
Central Area Home
11 Buildings by Shigeru Ban
2014 Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban’s body of work is a showcase of spatial and material innovation.
Mama Shelter Rio De Janeiro
A Bay Area Chef Builds a Midcentury Ski Cabin Out of Gingerbread
San Francisco–based chef Anthony Strong offers workshops on building a picturesque Tahoe lodge out of candy and gingerbread.
Tesseract House
Yes, It Is Easy Being Green
Alternative materials help a house in California’s wine country tread lightly on the land.
How to Build an Affordable America
There are as many solutions to the country’s housing crisis as there are causes. We need them all.
How to Build a Fire Pit
It’s not summer without a backyard s’mores station.
The Mansfield Frogner House
How to Build a Floating Shelf
So you can take the perfect shelfie.
How to Build an Outdoor Shower
There's still enough time this summer to do a little DIY and build an outdoor shower in your yard.
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