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Working with a sumptuous material palette, Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects designed a sprawling new residence in Palo Alto for Mark and Laura Pine. The teak wood and handmade Danish bricks that define the exterior are used inside as well; distressed stainless steel panels by Chris French Metal sheathe one side of the upper volume. Blasen Landscape Architecture chose Peruvian feather grass to flank the entrance walkway.

The loft is situated at the end of the wood-paneled hallway upstairs.

An interior courtyard.

The lush grounds provide privacy and plenty of places to lounge in the sea air.

The original Jones & Emmons floor plan from 1964.

A fixed rooflight over the new kitchen island floods the once dark and gloomy centre of the home with natural light, while an exposed metal structural beam, painted in green, offers a modern feel to the property’s industrial heritage.

Becky, a Pilates Instructor, and Rob, a Trading Manager in leisure, fashion and lifestyle, turned a tired Victorian Hayloft into a home with personality and an exceptional interior living space. Becky plans to convert the garage at the front of the property into a pilates studio for her company Dalby Pilates.

Sliding doors now flood the new extension with natural light.

Lift-slide doors by Dynamic Windows allow easy access to planted rooftops that serve as small yards. The staggered rectangular panes, also by Dynamic Windows, reference the home’s multilevel configuration.

The ski resort of Thredbo came of age during the late '50s and '60s. Situated in New South Wales’ Snowy Mountains, it was developed by the Lend Lease Corporation from 1957 onwards and is now one of the region’s most popular alpine resorts, with over a dozen lifts and more than fifty runs. Harry Seidler—a keen skier himself—was asked to design a ski lodge by Dick Dusseldorp, the head of Lend Lease at the time. Sitting on a stone-walled base, the rest of the timber-framed house cantilevers outwards by degrees as the house reaches upwards. The ground floor is devoted to an entrance, stairwell, and utility spaces, while the upper levels hold the bedrooms and living spaces. Seidler’s ski lodge references many ideas commonly seen in traditional mountain chalets but gives them a distinctly modern twist.

The modernist architect André Wogenscky worked with Le Corbusier for many years before launching his own architectural studio in 1956. The Villa Chupin represents one of his most rounded residential projects, lifted by the fluid, open, and playful nature of its main living space. The house sits within a garden of tall pine trees that tower over the two-level building. Five bedrooms are locate at the upper level, but the linear plan is eroded at the ground level, where the space becomes dynamic. Here, an open-plan living room is protected by an angled wall of glass to the front and curving walls that encircle the rest of the space.

White Fox Lodge has been described as John Schwerdt’s magnum opus. The architect trained in Brighton and worked largely in Sussex and the south of England, with heritage and conservation projects forming a key part of his portfolio. But he was also influenced by Modernist architecture—particularly, the more organic approach advocated and pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright, whose work was a key point of reference in the evolution of White Fox Lodge. The floor plan of the single-story home adopts a pinwheel plan, as seen in the work of Richard Neutra and others.

One of Mies van der Rohe’s foremost American patrons was Herbert Greenwald. The Chicago-based developer awarded a number of key commissions to the émigré architect, who settled in the United States in 1938. The single-level, flat-roofed Morris Greenwald House, with its curtain walls and banks of glass, has been compared to a floor of the Lake Shore Drive Apartments taken out and slotted into a New England garden. Typically for Mies, the design was uncompromising with a fluid, open floor plan in which the master bedroom was an alcove within the main space. The house was restored and updated in 2003 by architect Peter Gluck.

During the Spanish Civil War, the pioneering Catalan modernist architect Josep Lluís Sert moved from Barcelona to Paris and then, in 1939, emigrated to the United States. He became dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he worked for nearly fifteen years—relaunching his practice in 1955 in Cambridge. Around 1957, Harvard offered Sert a parcel of land near the Cambridge campus to build a house for himself. On this urban American site, he created a midcentury version of the traditional courtyard houses common to parts of Spain and North Africa. At its heart, a hidden courtyard provided an outdoor room connected to the main living space at one end and the bedroom wing at the other—slim circulation spaces sit to each side.

This most famous residence in Palm Springs—and perhaps all California—is the great exemplar of desert modernism. With the Kaufmann House, Neutra took the relationship between inside and outside space to a new level of intimacy, dissolving boundaries through multiple means. The rugged beauty of the mountain backdrop and the desert 'moonscape,' as he called it, serve to enhance the impact of its horizontals and verticals.