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Floor plan of House on a Ridge by Barrett Made

"The Marshad House is not only of architecturally historical significance, but offers the chance to experience a lifestyle celebrating individuality and creativity through the timeless appeal of Breuer's modernist design,

Floor plans of the RD24 showing the end room configured as a walk-in wardrobe, an office, and a bunk room. Clever

"The gardens surrounding the home were designed with lyrical theatricality, following an undulating path through 25 different 'scenes,'

The screened porch at the rear of the property overlooks the forest, and it was a response to the request of architect Tom Knezic’s mother for a space that embraced the morning light from the east. “I got a lot of head scratching from people wondering why you would put a porch on the back—but it’s actually kind of nice to look at the forest, and you get the east light,” says Knezic. “It also means we have three aspects, while it’s more typical to have just the single aspect toward the lake.”

When Rob and Mary Lubera started pulling threads to uncover the origins of their new home—the lone midcentury house amid rows of Tudor Revivals in suburban Detroit—not even architecture scholars could have anticipated what they would find. Theirs is the last surviving residence by Alexander Girard (1907–1993), a modernist visionary who made his name in textiles but tried his hand at virtually everything, architecture included. The shoji-like laminate screens, seen in the entryway, are characteristic of his Japanese-influenced work.

Aranza de Ariño and Claudio Sodi gave the architects at S-AR carte blanche to design their 850-square-foot beach retreat.

At 23 years old, self-taught designer Mariah Hoffman set out to craft her own 156-square-foot sanctuary.