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

Designers at Home: Sharing Stories of Houses That Were Worth the Wait
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A Fresh Dose of Color Livens Up This Midcentury Los Angeles Home
A Fresh Dose of Color Livens Up This Midcentury Los Angeles Home
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...
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Hidden in Plain View
A digitally fabricated design in London boasts secret compartments for coralling the trappings of a modern workspace.
Marrakech Expressed
33 Rue Majorelle, a new concept store specializing in housewares and clothes in Marrakech, Morocco, is pushing the nation’s centuries-old design traditions firmly into the 21st...
The Architect Barbie Conundrum
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?
This Designer Escapes to Ibiza for Some Peace and Quiet
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.
Rural Home on a Holland Harbor
Inspired by her natural surroundings, a Dutch felt artist intuitively crafts a home on a northern Holland harbor.
Laurinda Spear
Cofounding principal of Arquitectonica
Eva Franch i Gilabert
New York’s seminal downtown architecture gallery heralds a Catalonia-born academic, firebrand, and force of nature as its director.
Womens et Womanus
Meet three women who are helping keep MIT’s architecture program—America’s first—at the forefront of design innovation.
Allison G. Williams
FAIA LEEDAP, design principal, and director of design at Perkins+Will
Yasmeen Lari
With nearly half a century of in-the-field experience, Pakistan’s first female architect leads an ambitious nonprofit, the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan.
Susan Kare
Thirty years ago, an Apple designer helped define the future of personal computers with three iconic icons.
Elisa Orlanski Ours
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.
Jill Lerner
Managing principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, FAIA
Renny Ramakers
A few words with the polymath powerhouse behind Dutch industrial-design giant Droog.
Natasha Jen
Pentagram’s newest partner adopts a spatial approach to graphic design and building brand identities that go way beyond logos.
131-Day House
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.
Facade Focus: Steel
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...
Strength in Numbers
Touting a model of collaborative creativity, five young Chicagoans share talent and resources to promote the work of female designers.
Modern Martha's Vineyard Retreat
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.