Meet the Faces Behind Our New American Home Issue

For the past few years, Doug Moore, a newspaper reporter, and his husband fixated their attention on a modern house they built on forgotten land in St. Louis, Missouri. Moore, an avid traveler, ventured to Wisconsin to cover a sculptural grasslands retreat. “I knew it was the residents’ weekend getaway so I was stoked when they invited me into Madison to see where they nested, in an old church,” he says. “It was a wonderful juxtaposition—two worlds 45 minutes apart.”

Favorite city in the United States for architecture: “Chicago, see it from the river.”