The July-August 1955 issue of Palm Springs Villager enthusiastically announced that an “official groundbreaking” had taken place and that “building has begun on the extensive 213-acre Sunmor ...

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 ...

Above: A vacation home in Valle de Guadalupe, on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, designed by architect Tom Kundig of Olson Kundig ...

The Kaufmann Desert House designed by Richard Neutra—which many regard as one of the most iconic homes of the 20th century—recently hit the market for $25 million. The five-bedroom, six-bath Palm ...

Buckle up your safety belts mid-century modern architecture enthusiasts, because one of America’s great residential treasures, the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, Calif., has come available, as ...

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 ...

Inspired by the logic and beauty of nature, Southern California architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg designed striking structures — some of the most celebrated ever built — seeking to blend them with ...

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 ...

Richard Neutra is considered to be one of the world’s most prominent modernist architects. He was born in Austria but spent the majority of his career working in Southern California. Neutra’s ...

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 ...

A one-of-a-kind home, designed as proof of concept for affordable Modernist architecture in Southern California following World War II, has hit the market with a $10.5 million price tag. Designed by ...

In the fall of 2009, city buses rumbled through Rome plastered with close-ups of a windblown Zaha Hadid, promoting the opening of her National Museum of XXI Century Arts. MAXXI, as it is called, was ...