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The article focuses on the influential role of artists' houses in shaping the myths surrounding artists, exploring examples such as Andrea Mantegna's temple-like house in Mantua and Louise Bourgeois's New York townhouse. It discusses how artists, through their homes, contribute to the myth-making process, influencing creative labor practices, societal perceptions, and the transition to post-industrial cities' creative economies.

"Those are the hardest parts to change later", points out architect Bill Maclay, author of the book The New Net Zero: Leading-Edge Design and Construction of Homes and Buildings for a Renewable Energy Future. ZERO ENERGY HOUSES BY NOW this salient fact has been hammered into architects' heads: buildings account for nearly 40 percent of carbon emissions. He notes promising indicators, such as construction of zero energy housing across climate zones, not just in California, where environmental conditions in much of the state are especially well-suited to such buildings. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the architectural design of the High Horse Ranch mountain house in Willits, California, designed by architect Kieran Timberlake.

The article reviews the architectural design of the Lath House in Tokyo, Japan, designed by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Architects.

The article reviews the architectural design of the Maison Malecaze concrete house in Toulouse, France, designed by architectural firm RCR Arquitectes.

The article reviews the architectural design of a Japanese-style house in Pound Ridge, New York, designed by Tsao & McKown Architects.

The article offers a review of the design and construction of a residence in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, designed by architects Brendan MacFarlane and Dominique Jakob.

A review is offered of the design and construction of a series of cabins in Mendocino County, California, designed by architect Douglas Burnham of the Envelope A+D firm.

A review is offered of the design for a residence in Matinecock, New York, designed by architect Paul Masi of the firm Bates Masi + Architects.

The article offers a review of the architectural design of a dwelling in Seattle, Washington, designed by architect Tom Kundig of the firm Olson Kundig.

A review is offered of the design and construction of a residence in East Hampton, New York, designed by architect Audrey Matlock.

The article offers an architectural review of a dwelling in Palma, Majorca, Spain, designed by the architects Jaime Oliver and Paloma Hernaiz of the OHLAB firm.

A review is offered of the architectural design of a residence in Tokyo, Japan, designed by architect Shigeru Ban.

The article features Mexico City-based Michan Architects, founded by Isaac Michan. Launched in 2010, Michan explains that the studio creates structures that propose a new reality for that place but not something completely new. Information on a a design project handled by the studio for Z53 Social Housing is presented. Michan's educational background is cited.

The article reviews the architectural design of a house in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois that was designed by Margaret McCurry and colleagues at Tigerman McCurry Architects.

The article reviews the architectural design of a house in Toronto, Ontario, designed by the firm superkül.

The article evaluates the architecture and interior design of a home in London, England, designed by the firm of Jonathan Tuckey Design.

The article offers information on the renovation and design by architects Merrill Elam and Mack Scogin of the Round House, a residence in Connecticut, originally designed by architect Richard T. Foster

The article discusses the architectural design of the two hulls house situated in a glaciated and coastal landscape in Nova Scotia, designed by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Ltd.

The article discusses the architectural design of the 747 Wing House in Malibu, California, a former Boeing 747 jet transformed as home of American set designer Tony Duquette, designed by architect David Randall Hertz.

The article discusses the architectural design of the conceptual home in a shape of a glass box in Bruges, Belgium, designed by architectural firm Govaert and Vanhoutte.

The article discusses the architectural design of the holiday home called Genius Loci of Rick Scanlon and Alicia Zarou Scanlon in Montauk, New York, designed by full-service architectural firm Bates Masi Architects LLC.

The article evaluates the architectural design of a residential house in Pangyo, South Korea, designed by the firm UnSangDong and architect Mijung Kim.

The article features the architectural design of the Montauk Compound located in Montauk, New York. Headed by Jim Biber if the FAIA, the inspiration for the said project came from Midcentury Modernism, particularly the Case Study House program run by the "Arts & Architecture," magazine in the 1940s. The main house consists of two back-to-back L-shaped sections and in the back, a more private wing with a master-bedroom/sitting-room suite and a guest suite.

The article describes the barn-inspired dwelling designed by Specht Harpman architectural firm for an artist couple in Wilton, Connecticut. The architects resited the house in the landscape, creating an outdoor arrival area on the long east side of the barn. An informal garden court leads the visitor inside to an entry porch, flanked by a potting shed and a breakfast room. On the other long side of the barn--the garden side--four French doors join the inside to the outdoors, effectively dissolving the wall and opening it to the landscape and silo.

The article describes the design of the renovated Old Calloway Place as a vacation house of the couple Martin and Laurie Cox of Dallas, Texas. With Dallas architect Dan Shipley, the Coxes decided they could convert the property from a cattle farm into a nature preserve and compound, adding to the existing 800-square-foot, 1920s home, and erecting a new building that would modernize and complement what was already there.

The article describes a barnlike house situated at Norfolk Broads in England. The house depicts the wooden shiplapped buildings in the area. Knox Bhavan Architects professionals have specified hard-wearing, rot-resistant Siberian larch for the exterior. Pitched roof was also used. The bats and owls made homeless when the old barn was torn down now take shelter in the horizontal slots of the new structure's exterior cladding.

The article highlights the creation of an architectural design by Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects where cinema and Eastern country meditation are combined with the ambience of Santa Monica Mountains, California in Jai House. A 130-foot-long, one-story bar offers a glimpse of the mountains to the southern area of the house. The glossy floors of the main living areas of the house is of dark-brown and polished concrete.

The article focuses on the efforts of Pugh+Scarpa to incorporate classic Modern architecture in the Redelco House in the Studio City district of Los Angeles, California. The house is said to be composed of a steel-framed living and dining pavilion. A bridge of rusted-steel grating skims over the entrance terrace along its facade. The architectural design of the house is suitable for someone who likes to entertain guests but does not necessary have to about accident-prone children.

The article features the Curran House designed by David baker + Partners in San Francisco, California. Viewed strictly in terms of design, Curran House adds syncopation and color to a neighborhood where too many blocks are marked by a grim monotony. But the most impressive accomplishment is the gracious humanity once visitors step inside. Curran House sends the message that families should live in buildings that offer a sense of comfort and respect regardless of income.

The article describes the architectural design of the Art Studio and Residence by architect Peter Rose in Sharon, Connecticut. The house consists a main house, an artist's studio, and a garage/guest quarters. The features of the art studio include open work area, offices and utility spaces.

The article describes the architectural design of the Hill House by Johnston Marklee & Associates in Pacific Palisades, California. The two outer walls of the house are tilted perpendicular to the 47-degree slope that works in compression with the inner retaining walls. Its facade, which was broken only by a single recessed slot above the garage, has the ability to baffle noise from the street and assures privacy.

This article presents information on design of dwellings at West Hollywood, California. West Hollywood is home to the R.M. Schindler House, 1920s bungalow courts, and tree-shaded residences evoking French châteaux, Spanish haciendas, and Tudor manses. Here, an aura of glamour and artistry has survived the onslaught of Sunset Strip-style urbanism and car culture. Unfortunately, bland, low-rise apartment buildings over gaping garages have ravished the charm of this 1.9-acre city, a plague of the character-killing typology that has proliferated here since the 1960s. Today's urgent need for higher-density housing coincides fortuitously with the aging of these soulless, poorly built buildings. In response, the city encourages new multifamily residences based on the area's historic courtyard housing, originally built in Spanish Revival or Craftsman style.Palisades Development Group of Santa Monica hired Public, a small San Diego architecture firm, to design the 20-unit Lofts at Laurel Court after Palisades' president, Avi Brash, admired Public's mixed-media, multifamily Dutra Building in San Diego. The 20 condominiums fill three buildings arranged around an elongated T-shaped courtyard. Except for one building that faces Laurel Street, residents enter their units from the courtyard.

This article presents information on the design of a building in 497 Greenwich Street of New York City. Using bent glass and a fluid approach to geometry, architect Winka Dubbeldam created a curtain wall with depth, a street front that envelopes space as much as it separates inside from out. Set on the western edge of SoHo, which had retained a gritty industrial demeanor until recently, the building at 497 Greenwich Street injects a rousing dose of 21st-century Modernism while engaging the past. The new structure rises alongside and then extends over its six-story, 19th-century neighbor to the south, drawing the older brick building into an architectural tango. While Now York City developers have been riding a booming residential market over the past several years, almost all of the apartment towers they've built have been numbingly formulaic in terms of floor plans and exterior design. By inserting a new building on the street and incorporating the empty six-story warehouse next door, the architect could create 23 living units and provide space on the ground floor for an art gallery or stores, as well as a small fitness center and meeting room for the residents. Although the curtain wall faces west, laminated glass, UV film, and exterior metal fins reduce the impact of the sun.

This article presents information on the Trahan Residence conceived by Tighe Architecture. The residence perches with dignity in the Texas Hill Country. The architect tucked the house into the side of a hill instead of plopping it on top like a hood ornament. It reads immediately as part of the landscape, with a curving anticipatory approach that implies more than it reveals. Tighe describes the result as "a series of contradictions," but "counterpoints" is more like it. The interior, on the other hand, is as open and fluid as the exterior is dense and rooted — a 260-degree sweep of glass overlooking 14 acres of buffalo grass and live oak trees, with a small creek at the bottom. A spacious living and dining area occupies the center of the house, separated from the master suite by a monumental stone fireplace.

Toronto, Ontario's North York district, just a few miles from the CN Tower's famous spire, is a world away from the genteel, tree-lined neighborhoods that drew Jane Jacobs north of the border after saving Greenwich Village and SoHo in New York City, from the wrecking ball. The area does have at least one good feature: its setting at the crest of a wide wooded ravine, one of several that slice through Toronto's eastern flank. The house wraps itself around a small pond filled with lily pads and a lap pool oriented toward the Toronto skyline, thinly veiled by a grove of birch trees and the woods beyond. The architects, partners in the Toronto-based firm Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, wanted to ensure visual permeability through the house as a play against a weathering steel exterior that suggests a much heavier structure.

On a steeply sloping site on Berrima Road in Singapore, architects Wong Mun Summ and his Australian partner Richard Hassell, known together as WOHA Architects, designed a modern paradise in the tropics. It's hard to believe these three, highly refined, almost identical homes are rental units, rising like white oases in the city's suburbs. Placed parallel to one another, each house consists of 4,000 square feet on a 4,000-square-foot lot. The tight site areas challenged the designers to convey spaciousness within limitations and find privacy for residents. The houses are staggered in relation to each other to create interest and reduce visibility to neighbors. The architects explained their design strategy as consisting of three cubic forms linked by circulation passageways. The three bedrooms are located at the entrance level, with the master bedroom sited directly in front of the lobby, accessible only from a narrow timber bridge, separating it from the public areas of the house.

The diversity of housing and community development projects honored here testifies to the truth that good design need not be constrained by financial resources, geography, or environmental concerns. This is demonstrated by an educational/civic center that serves as a centralizing force for the community, single-family houses that draw inspiration from historic precedent, barracks and row-house designs that exploit the aesthetics of these distinct building types, and three residential projects that propose unusual mixed uses in tight urban settings. Russell Cottage in Florida, is West Indies-inspired weekend cottage uses color and texture to combine traditional charm and contemporary style. A "drip wall" made of corrugated galvanized metal, with hooks for hanging wet bathing suits and towels, contrasts with the rich antique "sinker" Cyprus planked floor and rustic shell-and-crushed-limestone inset.

Recent discussions about innovations in prefabrication and modular or unitized construction methods generally focus on the aesthetics and economics of the final product. The process, or rather processes, of reaching the end tend to be described generically, as if all programs can be addressed the same way. The terms also describe a range of building products, such as the production of structural insulated panels and exterior insulation and finish systems, both of which are ubiquitous in commercial and residential building. The projects here can be described as component-based design, a term that lacks the preconceived notions associated with prefabrication. With the wealth of materials at hand, and the vision of what they can do, the editing skills of an architect in making material design decisions is very important. It is not the materials that are new. Aluminum has been around since 1807, glass since 4,000 B.C. It is the understanding of these components and the consideration of how they can be used together that opens up the design.

In a city that has looked to the West for architectural inspiration during the past decade, not to mention during its colonial heyday, architect Benjamin Wood, did something that many people thought was impossible, he sold the idea of Shanghai back to its own residents. Wood has transformed two city blocks of forlorn residential buildings from the 1920s and '30s into a lively entertainment and retail quarter with chic fusion restaurants and some of China's favorite American brands, such as Hä agen-Dazs and Starbucks. By day, professionals lunch and make deals at tables lining walkways, while at night they chug pints of lager and tap their feet to sounds of live music.

Focuses on how Kenneth Hobgood, an architect, renovated his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, by using materials inspired by old forms. Location of the house; Background information on the house; Features of the house.

Reports on environmental home programs in the United States that aim for energy-efficiency and ecological-design. Includes the Tamarack Point subdivision near Colorado Springs; Marketing of affordable eco homes; Use of recycled materials. INSETS: It looks like home.;Affordable regional style.;Form follows fresh air.;Considering climate and landscape.

Profiles the Zumikon Residence overlooking Lake Zurich in Switzerland. Designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects; Photo-feature of the house.

Profiles the Sarli Residence of mathematician John Sarli at Juniper Hills, California in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Designed by architect Judith Sheine; Photo-feature on the house.

Describes a residence and office property owned by physician Mary Ann Tsao in New York City, designed by architects Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown. Interior design of the property; Concept applied by the architects in designing the property; Findings of the preliminary inspection of the property.

The article features the architectural design of the Lake Tahoe House located in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The design concept was from David Lake of Lake/Flato Architects. The plan loosely forms a courtyard that slopes downward. It is a main three-story house with a kitchen, a large, open living room two bedrooms and separate bathrooms. The architects reduced the size of the project, which encompasses 5,845 square feet of indoor space.

The article features the architectural design of the Evans Residence located in The Sea Ranch, California. This was designed by the Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects while the interiors were designed by Margaret Simon. The house is located 90 miles north of San Francisco and features a slightly sloped site and a garden with a line of mature cypress trees and shrubs. Along the edge of the site, the building with the master bedroom and bath and a lower sleeping area, among others.

The article explores on the risks and operational considerations for attached garage fires in residential buildings. It highlights the importance to have a working knowledge on the building characteristics particularly the special hazards. It also cites the use of fire extinguisher to cool and slow down the fire.

The article discusses the use of lightweight trusses, an engineered wood beams for the construction of houses in the U.S. It highlights the integration of standard building code for area and height limitations associated with the installation of sprinkler system and fire alarms to prevent the spread of fire. It also cites the characteristics of the wood-frame residential structure.

The article looks at the design of a house designed by architect Adolf Loos for American-born French performer Josephine Baker, which features entertainment spaces and a swimming pool.