Drive through any American suburb and odds are you’ll spot a modern farmhouse in its natural habitat. The style is hard to miss: white board and batten vertical siding, large black frame windows, and ...

During the last hundred and fifty years a great change has taken place in architecture. This change has nothing to do with the questions of superficial esthetics that agitated the architectural world: ...

FOR the last century American domestic architecture has been a series of fads. After the end of the Georgian tradition, houses were successively designed to look like Greek temples, mediæval ...

Midcentury houses have their charms, but they often lack the airy yet comfortable atmosphere that contemporary dwellers covet. Such was the case with a 60-year-old residence in the Minneapolis area ...

A century ago, a strange edifice arose at the foot of the Hollywood Hills, on Kings Road. It was a single-story structure of gray concrete walls and redwood ceilings, shorn of ornament. Before ...

Instead of classic beach houses with cedar shingles, developers are building more sleek, contemporary homes with flat roofs and lots of glass. 9 Photos View Slide Show › By Marcelle Sussman Fischler ...

Take a good, long look at the photo above. Looks like you’re about to enter one of those striking contemporary houses that dot the Main Line, doesn’t it? Yes, f0lks, you have just entered a ...