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“The living room bleeds into the dining room, which bleeds into the kitchen—it’s all one space, really,” says Opa Architecture principal Aria Jahanshahi.

Landscape designer Kenneth Philip worked with mwworks to fill in the forested setting.

The front entrance of the Miller House is flanked by a series of glass screens, designed by either Dan Kiley or Girard.

The Miller House and Garden features a custom-made sofa in the open-plan living area designed by Saarinen with textiles by Girard. The home was widely published and is in part credited for the popularity of conversation pits in the 1950s and 1960s.

The pathway from the pool to the house is paved with the same slate that clads the exterior walls.

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.

The pilot home on Whidbey Island demonstrates the system’s potential: a 600-square-foot interior paired with nearly equal covered outdoor space, set lightly on a pin foundation that protects tree roots and cuts carbon by 77 percent. "Puzzle Prefab can be modified according to each site,

Occidental Residence

Built just a few years ago, this black Catskills cabin has 30-foot ceilings, 10 acres of land, and it comes fully furnished.

The villa on the dike

The Wilde Retreat Glass House of Lake Gaston

On the neighboring property, kYodai House brings to mind the horizontal lines that were hallmarks of Wright's designs.

A table by Willie Willette sits beneath pendants from Design Within Reach in the dining area, where Jeremy designed built-in cabinets in walnut.