Designers at Home: Sharing Stories of Houses That Were Worth the Wait

Under the tutelage of the Bauhaus master, Margaret De Patta trailblazed the American studio jewelry movement with wearable art.

A Martha’s Vineyard retreat surpasses the traditional boundaries of Cape Cod architecture with a contemporary design by Harvard professor and practicing architect Toshiko Mori.

Touting a model of collaborative creativity, five young Chicagoans share talent and resources to promote the work of female designers.

Idaho-based architect Susan Desko—previously a senior design architect for Frank Gehry—created a house built of untreated steel plate and glass that towers among the trees of...

Architect Jayna Cooper had never designed a house before, much less played general contractor, when she broke ground on her new home in the middle of Los Angeles in 2009.

Pentagram’s newest partner adopts a spatial approach to graphic design and building brand identities that go way beyond logos.

A few words with the polymath powerhouse behind Dutch industrial-design giant Droog.

Managing principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, FAIA

This fixer brings a varied background in academia, architecture, and construction to her management role at one of New York City’s blue-chip development firms.

Thirty years ago, an Apple designer helped define the future of personal computers with three iconic icons.

With nearly half a century of in-the-field experience, Pakistan’s first female architect leads an ambitious nonprofit, the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan.

FAIA LEEDAP, design principal, and director of design at Perkins+Will

The Iran-born sisters blaze a bold path for self-employed architects: Design everything in sight.

Meet three women who are helping keep MIT’s architecture program—America’s first—at the forefront of design innovation.

New York’s seminal downtown architecture gallery heralds a Catalonia-born academic, firebrand, and force of nature as its director.

Cofounding principal of Arquitectonica

How a highly productive collaboration among a trio of creative Angelenas—and a good dose of Barragán—turned a dark and beleaguered midcentury house into a family home for the...

Inspired by her natural surroundings, a Dutch felt artist intuitively crafts a home on a northern Holland harbor.

In a quiet corner of the famed Spanish party island, rug designer Nani Marquina and photographer Albert Font have carved out a serene, site-sensitive home.

The world’s most popular doll, with a hot-pink blueprint tube and a hard hat: friend or foe to a profession already suffering from a pronounced gender gap?