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The Connecticut-based architect details the in-progress metamorphoses of two canonical, early-career residences designed by Peter Eisenman.

Overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, this reddish-pink villa is the product of a series of disagreements between the architect and the client, a colorful writer.

Planning for the five-bedroom dwelling began with mapping out a perimeter around the root system of a sprawling rubber tree, adored by the clients, on the site.

Daylight is smartly scooped and funneled into this modest—and aptly monikered—bluffside residence.

Our dwelling-focused picks include monographs dedicated to Tom Kundig and Anne Fougeron, an expanded edition of ‘Fire Island Modernist,’ and a history of Neutra’s Lovell Health House.

RECORD’s annual appraisal of houses looks at residences with a smaller scale but equally big impact.

Featuring indoor and outdoor spaces that flow into each other and clad in charred timber, Translators’ House was designed for husband-wife scholars of Japanese and their children.

The two-story house disregards the formal and compositional conventions of its context, while elevating locally common materials—stucco, regional cedar, and board-formed concrete—to give it a strong sense of fit.

Recipients of the $1 million triennial prize include an affordable modular structural system for flood-impacted Bangladeshi communities and the redevelopment of a major metro station in Tehran.

Tucked away in a historic enclave, Morningside Residence balances climatic demands with an approach influenced by Sarasota Modern design principles.