An architect-author gives us the inside track on one of his favorite subjects: contractors.

The American Dream, some say, is all about owning a home.

The ancient Greeks did it in the agora; the Romans did it in the forum; Persians did it in the bazaar (“the place of prices”);...

We have seen shipping containers being repurposed for uses ranging from housing to hotels—so it's only logical that some...

The new concept store in the Mission neighborhood encourages shoppers to browse and reserve items through a digital interface.

Fuss all you like about sprinklers and guardrails, we need building codes. Here's how to get your architect to play along.

Ever since Adam and Eve’s unfortunate eviction, their descendants have been plunging hands and seeds into the earth in hopes of...

The kitchen has evolved from a closed-off satellite to the most open, doted-upon room in the house—and repository of our dreams...

As anyone who has been to Peru, or Bali, or Timbuktu can tell you, travel is not merely the experience of going somewhere.

Mention universal design and see your companions’ eyes start glazing over.

Eating has always been a sociable event, from primitive campfire cooking to reclining on lectuli at lavish Greek and Roman...

Garden design is only a fraction of the landscaping tradition. We take a look into (and upon) the field.

Last night I went to a corner liquor store to buy some toothpaste.

Few feelings equal the rush of shopping in the center of the universe with cold hard cash—or credit—burning a hole in the pocket.

Preview the Editor’s Letter from our January/February issue, written by Dwell founder and CEO Lara Deam.

Read the Editor’s Letter from our upcoming November/December edition and look for the issue on newsstands in the first week of...

It has been nearly half a decade, but the Dwell Home II is back! Construction began this winter in the hills outside Los Angeles,...

Read the Editor’s Letter from our upcoming September/October edition and look for the issue on newsstands in the first week of...

The basic principle of prefab, whereby a home is fabricated in one location and then delivered to another, has been around for at...

Aside from that mischievous caveperson in France who used a piece of charcoal to draw a line around some stick figures that...

One of the oldest proclamations in Western literature—maybe the very oldest, depending on how you see things—is “Let there be...

If the design world feels like an endless parade of products, then the gnashing maws of industrial production assuredly underpin...