A tidy package with a porous wrapping, N House is a set of three nesting boxes that span the scales of city and domicile.

On the Costa del Azahar, 135 miles southwest of Barcelona, the Modernist summer house has a distinguished pedigree all its own.

As you approach Thomas Phifer and Partners’ house in upstate New York, the long, steep climb up a winding country road ends not with a dramatic structure, nor a sweeping panorama; its denouement is merely a prelude to the multifaceted spatial sequence to come.

Ventana Canyon House Program: A two-story 8,380-square-foot family vacation villa.

A former stable on a tight Chicago lot is reborn as the Brick-weave House.

Allied Works explores hierarchies of viewing with a guest house in Dutchess County, New York.

Inspired by the 1920s brick detailed facades of the Amsterdam School, the architects designed this steel-framed residence, clad in black bricks of varied texture, as a vertical garden.