Inspiration

Open to architects and students of all experience levels, the competition gives entrants the opportu nity to design the playhouse of their childhood dreams.

Albert Frey’s modernist model home, Aluminaire House, moves to Palm Springs from New York.

While many resorts and hotels can boast waterfront views and oceanside proximity, the architecture i n this collection sits virtually on top of the aquatic bodies surrounding it.

These designs use context as borrowed landscapes, creating dynamic spaces that embody energy, focus and movement.

Whereas an earlier generation of sustainable architecture advocated sensitizing entire buildings to natural phenomena like solar exposure and prevailing wind patterns, more recently the movement has focused on the details. Environmental Product Declarations, Health Product Declarations and Declare labeling initiatives, in particular, ensure that a building’s many pieces embody the ethics of the whole puzzle.…

These modern structures recall ancient tools for promoting civic dialogue and community engagement.

“Right now, the dominant geographies are geographies of extraction; they’re geographies of power,” s ays Saskia Sassen in an interview with Ibai Rigby of urbanNext.

Sometimes it takes another architect to know exactly what other architects would appreciate in their own homes.

In every historical period and architectural style, staircases have been the aesthetic and social he art of a building interior. From the medieval priest relaying a heavenly message from atop a spiraling pulpit to Miamians descending Morris Lapidus’s “staircase to nowhere” to command the attention of partygoers, steps have made the scene. In the 21st century,…