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

A 1,600-square-foot home in Costa Rica takes advantage of passive cooling techniques to tread lightly on the land it sits on.

Studio eM Design’s rammed-earth home in Corrales, New Mexico, updates the regional adobe archetype into a hallmark of sustainable...

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

Covering a wide range of iconic homes from Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye to Shigeru Ban’s Curtain Wall House, Phaidon's recently...

The energy-efficient Silicon Valley home that architect Dan Spiegel designs for his parents responds to their lifestyles, the...

Part history book, part design bible, “Inside Utopia” captures the midcentury modernist psyche and beyond.

In a modernist seaside enclave, a couple calls in a pioneering architecture firm to build a new house rooted in midcentury style.

From the use of structural insulated panels to achieving net-zero energy capability, these New England firms are paving the way...

In Melbourne’s Northcote neighborhood, Studio Bright reincarnates a declining Edwardian into a civic-minded family home with...

In rural North Yorkshire, a simple agricultural shed becomes a bright and energy-efficient home for a couple and their art...

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.

In Seattle, where others saw only a severe slope and lack of municipal hookups, one couple spotted their ticket to their dream...

A Brooklyn architect shows what a little elbow grease, a healthy dose of naïveté, and a decade can accomplish.

An exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum presents a refreshing look at the modern home through the lens of Italian-Brazilian...

Uni, an international group of designers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is riding out a self-professed renovation high that never...

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

The Alden B Dow Home & Studio in Central Michigan showcases the extraordinary vision, imagination, and craftsmanship of the...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

With sensitivity to local building typologies, fresh construction finds a place in Amsterdam.

With the clean lines of its steel-and-glass structure, ESCAPE’s new prefab nods to the past—but inside is a trove of modern...

Behind the Dwell Magazine Redesign

Fifteen minutes from downtown Seattle, architects Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo transformed the neighborhood dump—a lot that had...

As New Orleans struggles to get back on its feet, one architect learns from the past while building for the future.