American Modern: Brilliant Design Across the USA

How do American companies maintain handcrafted detail while producing fast enough—and in large enough quantities—to satisfy profit margins and consumers accustomed to instant...

The Seattle prince of architectural gizmos is branching out into a new line of hardware fashioned from bars and pipes.

Even after subtle updates, the 1965 house the architect built for his parents in Amagansett maintains the efficient yet spacious feel that helped make it an American icon.

A dramatic trellis adds bravado and a passive cooling element to a recently renovated midcentury ranch house.

With these modern-day lodges for Kansas City campers heading to the country, a Missouri architecture firm puts a fresh face on a 100-year-old Girl Scout tradition.

In 50 years, more than 176 million fans have entered the turnstiles at Dodger Stadium, the mid-century modern ballpark nestled in Los Angeles’s Chavez Ravine.

An airy addition on the back of a historic house in Boise is a model of sensitive renovation, seamlessly melding new and old.

How an unfussy, nearly zero-energy family home in Santa Cruz, California, wound up with hay bales in the walls, a state-of-the-art heat pump system, and six very happy residents.

Thanks to Matthew Hufft, their envelope-pushing architect and longtime friend, Hannah and Paul Catlett have a new home in southwestern Missouri that’s a fresh, unconventional...

A Texas-born couple returns to their roots, carving out a family base from a dilapidated 1957 home in Austin.

To create their rural Connecticut getaway, Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi layered their modern design sensibility atop an early 20th-century stone foundation.

At his shop in Salt Lake City, collector Ron Green supplies locals with a welcome, and well-priced, dose of modern design.

When Russian-born architect Andrei Saltykov designed his home in the UK, he put his love of the USA on the shelf.