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

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

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

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

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

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...

Designed to amplify connections with the desert, a low-lying courtyard house nestles into the landscape.

An art-filled retreat fits right into the landscape.

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

In Rancho Mirage, California, a tired 1960s house is completely transformed with new features and materials that blend midcentury...

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

An entrepreneur-turned-DIY builder expands his eco-friendly Yucca Valley property with this translucent desert structure.

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

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

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...

Turnkey ready, the revamped house near Joshua Tree comes with 2.5 acres of complete solitude.

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.