Planning a move from the city to the suburbs a few years ago, Shivani and Marvin Mendez found a house in Deerfield that had nearly everything they wanted: midcentury modern architecture, lots of ...

Solution: The structure is organized around a series of four outdoor courtyards. Visitors cross a bridge over a reflecting pool to enter the house. An entry vestibule leads to the double height great ...

Interior courtyards and soaring atriums bring nature into the home in a dramatic way, creating special spaces where serenity and scenery reign. In sunny states such as California and even in colder ...

THE SPACE: A glorious courtyard and fountain in Uptown New Orleans THE HOUSE: A late-19th-century double camelback converted to a single, with a rear guesthouse. THE OWNER: Ann Hobson Soniat WHY SHE ...

Influential architectural solutions sometimes emerge from specific zoning or code constraints. In New York, the 1916 setback requirements bred an entire language of massing (think of Hugh Ferriss’s ...