David Hay, a New York-based playwright who once lived in a house designed by Richard Neutra has always been interested in how architects design homes that promote easy and comfortable social interaction. He fondly recalls sitting in Williams Massie's house late last summer, surrounded by people old and young, as the conversation got funnier and more outrageous by the minute–a tribute to a design that puts humans, with all their wonderful foibles, first.

From the Archive: Floating on Air in the Tradition of Lautner’s Chemosphere
In 2001, Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena were tasked with building an “extremely modern” house on a steep hillside lot in...
A Young Architect Painstakingly Restores a Modern Masterwork by Marcel Breuer
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A Richly Furnished Home Frames Striking Landscape Views
In the Australian bush, a sculptor and an architect collaborate on a house built to withstand fire.