A couple’s retirement home on a nature preserve in Carmel, California, emerges as a series of eco-conscious pavilions that rest...

"Personally, I’d rather be living outside,” says architect David Hertz.

HÛT Architecture uses a simple palette of handcrafted materials to create a contemporary home for a musician and a furniture...

A new home in Australia raises the question: Is it possible to produce much of your own food and energy while living near the...

We present four case studies on more viable ways of living in mountains, forests, wetlands, and deserts.

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Decades after they met as teenagers on a Montauk beach, Manhattanites Victoria and Greg Pryor returned to Long Island to build a...

Seeking simplicity and open space, a Boulder-area couple settled on a wooded hilltop with views of the mountains and the city.

The City of Los Angeles has announced the winners of its latest design contest, which crowdsourced innovative housing solutions...

A thoroughly modern house in Baton Rouge owes its sleek and sustainable form to its vernacular roots.

From a shipping container dwelling to architect Steven Holl’s forest retreat, these residences embody the ideal that what’s best...

In the Texas capital's transit-oriented Mueller development, architect Michael Hsu proposes a modern take on row house living.

From a carbon-negative cabin to a prefab farmhouse, these resourceful designs captivated readers this year.

For this rural Ontario home, building sustainably was less about high-tech gizmos than learning to truly love the land.

Climate is one of the biggest factors of human physical comfort and sustainability, and it's one of the most important...

The return of summer barbecues and back porch hangouts means that outdoor living spaces are again enjoying heavy foot traffic.

With careful planning and wise material choices, you can design an eco-friendly home that's not only gentler on the planet, but...

Wood in general is a beautiful, evocative natural material, and when it's saved from a landfill and reused, it has even more...

A renovation with coastal views brings a tidy wooden box—and a dose of contemporary cozy—to a neighborhood of traditional...

Thanks to a disciplined devotion to mid-century principles of design, a curator’s bachelor pad in the Hamptons is reborn.

A 1940 house designed by the modernist architect for his family in Ross, California.

With a historic designation and updated energy-efficient features, this spacious 3,521-square-foot property in Pasadena,...

A Southern California architect approaches his family home as an experiment in sustainable design.

A husband and wife decide to retire in a historic downtown enclave—and in the process, they reimagine what the area could be.

A high-tech house in rural Finland offers a family a place to recharge—in more ways than one.

A couple’s retirement home on a nature preserve in Carmel, California, emerges as a series of eco-conscious pavilions that rest...

Explore Ecospace Studio's modular buildings that serve a variety of valuable purposes.

Designers Kate Newman, Jordan Cluroe, and Russell Whitehead share their color picks that’ll give your kitchen a fresh look for...

Matt Jacobson doesn’t just abide by the mantra “less is more,” he wholeheartedly embraces it. His Southern California home is a...

Perkins & Will designs a mountaintop Passive House that takes energy efficiency to the next level.

A sustainable home in Lexington, Massachusetts, brings contemporary design to an unexpected region.

John Lautner's beyond-groovy Elrod House is nothing short of concrete poetry.

Now that summer has officially started, temperatures are rising and air conditioners are cranked up—but that doesn’t mean you...

In the 2010s, design/build programs were the cutting edge of architectural education.

If you’re constantly feeling as if you’re waking up on the wrong side of the bed, it might be time to rethink your bedroom design.

Built on a tight budget of $120,000, a retirement home in the mountains delivers unexpected contemporary design to a rural...