With this elegant steel prototype, Marmol Radziner and Associates launch a new prefab venture with the goal of bringing their...

Architect Lloyd Russell’s design for this desert getaway passively mitigates the elements with a utilitarian solution, turning a...

The barren beauty of a desert landscape can be a source of inspiration for off-the-grid prefab living.

Two Los Angeles designers resuscitate a down-at-the-heel John Lautner building—and give architecture fans a chance to spend the...

Jim Murren’s prefab house in Sin City, designed by Marmol Radziner, is as artful as it is art-filled, thanks to an asymmetrical...

The Blue Sky prototype home tiptoes gracefully across the desert landscape just north of Joshua Tree National Park.

This dark Yucca Valley home tricks the eye through clever use of light and shadow.

A Slovenian architect’s “wooden tent” design pushes the conversation on nature-respecting modern mountain architecture and...

An art-filled retreat fits right into the landscape.

In the ’60s, using only materials found on their 400-acre plot of forest in Mendocino County, Charles Bello and his wife built a...

While Joel Turkel has built prefab homes all over North America and beyond, he hasn’t had the chance to live in one of his own...

Designed with locally sourced stone and red-tinted cement, this coastal retreat effortlessly blends into its surrounding...

In the high desert landscape of Yucca Valley, California, the rectilinear Graham Residence cuts a striking figure against the...

Stay in a midcentury modern hotel built and inspired by the iconic style of American architect John Lautner.

Conceived as an extension of the Arizona landscape, this eco-friendly, modern house approaches near net-zero energy consumption.

These homes make living in the heat of the desert look easy, breezy, and cool.

Former horse stalls now serve as concrete room dividers in this modernist guest home in Phoenix, Arizona.

At the base of Echo Mountain in Phoenix, a geometric home by Wendell Burnette opens up to the surrounding desert landscape.

A Canadian family’s getaway in the California desert.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, which probably isn't an issue when the glass house is a commune.