Enamored of historical building techniques, John Byers embraced California's early heritage. Born in Michigan in 1875 after the Civil War, the transplant to sunny Santa Monica understood the delicious ...

Paul Popenoe cottage in Indio in 1922 from R. M. Schindler papers, Architecture & Design Collection. Frank Lloyd Wright, the influential and preeminent architect of the 20th century is quoted as ...

A prime attraction is Graves’ painting studio. Works there might seem like plein-air exercises, but Nichols explains that all ...

Each week in the early 1950s, an entire page of the Los Angeles Times was devoted to announcements by religious institutions about their offerings. A vast array of possibilities was available, ranging ...

Eric Strain founded his Las Vegas architecture firm, assemblageSTUDIO, on April Fool’s Day in 1997. It was the perfect time, he says: “Nobody thought this thing would last.” A maverick architect ...

Designed by the visionary modernist architect in the late 1950s, the Hollywood Hills home has undergone a makeover and is now ...

Palm Springs architecture has long made the town a favored destination of midcentury-modern design lovers, and the biggest names of that era (say, Walt Disney or Frank Sinatra) enjoyed the desert ...

Program: Two generations of a family assembled a tract of land along the Phoenix Mountain Preserve and agreed to build adjacent residences—one to the east, for middle-aged parents, with two primary ...

A stunning home in Morocco demonstrates that you can live off-grid and still live in luxury. The home, located in the desert ...