The arid Californian landscapes form a key part of the story behind High Desert House, a new home and studio by San Francisco based architect Ryan Leidner. The project’s clients, painter Heather Day ...

Meanwhile, Matcham was as devoted to Palm Springs as ever despite major projects in Los Angeles. He was one of the architects ...

Would you live in a house made of straw? In the heart of California’s high desert, Mesa Sky Disk challenges everything you ...

College of the Desert is inviting the public to check out The Tiny House on Wheels. The completed tiny home started as an in-class competition for eighteen first-year architecture design students at ...

In the South Gobi Desert of Mongolia, a building created by Margot Krasojevic Architects for SIAC is exploring dormant monolithic architecture in the sand dunes. The Sand Drift Proving Ground responds ...

During Hollywood’s golden era, numerous celebrities visited and owned homes in Palm Springs to escape the spotlight, enjoying ...

Nestled between the Dead Sea and the Judean Mountains in Israel, the Desert Home is an incredible creation meant to exist in perfect harmony with nature. Esther Sperber, New York City architect and ...

The birth of desert modernism can be traced back to some fine print. In the early and mid-20th century, Hollywood’s rigid studio system reportedly kept some of its biggest stars contractually bound to ...

Soon after her mother’s death, Pearl was in dire poverty. Desperate, she sold a valuable piece of land from her father’s original 80 Palm Springs acres with its water rights, for only $500. That was a ...

“I was just burnt out,” recalls Chenin, who was recently elevated into the prestigious College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, the organization’s top tier, to which only 3 percent ...

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From houses clad in reflective surfaces to those that draw on traditional desert architecture, we've selected eight homes and hotels built to facilitate human life in the arid deserts of California, ...