https://estateanddesign.com/ The latest architecture stories from Estate & Design. en https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/the-glass-house-new-canaan/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/the-glass-house-new-canaan/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Completed in 1949 as Philip Johnson's own house in New Canaan, Connecticut, a single transparent room on a brick plinth became the first entry in a fifty-year diary of buildings, landscape and art. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/villa-mairea-noormarkku/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/villa-mairea-noormarkku/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Designed between 1937 and 1939 for Harry and Maire Gullichsen, Villa Mairea is the house where Aalto was told to experiment, and did: a modernist plan that thinks like a forest. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/hill-house-helensburgh/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/hill-house-helensburgh/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Hill House at Helensburgh, completed in 1904, is his most complete domestic work. A flawed render nearly destroyed it. A chainmail-clad shelter is now drying it out. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/palais-stoclet-brussels/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/palais-stoclet-brussels/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 In Brussels stands Josef Hoffmann's 1905 to 1911 masterpiece, a total work of art with a Klimt frieze in the dining room. It is a UNESCO site, and it is closed to the public. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/villa-savoye-poissy/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/villa-savoye-poissy/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Le Corbusier's 1928 to 1931 villa outside Paris is the built manifesto of modern architecture's five points. It survived war, abandonment and a demolition order. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/salk-institute-la-jolla/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/salk-institute-la-jolla/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Louis Kahn's 1965 institute for Jonas Salk pairs two concrete laboratory blocks across a travertine court that runs to the Pacific. It is still a working laboratory. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/gamble-house-pasadena/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/gamble-house-pasadena/ Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Greene and Greene's 1908 to 1909 Pasadena house for the Procter and Gamble heir is the most complete American Arts and Crafts interior ever built. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/clos-pegase-winery/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/clos-pegase-winery/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 In 1984, a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art competition drew ninety-six design teams to design a Napa Valley winery. Michael Graves won with a postmodern Bacchanalian temple. Four decades on, it has been restored and reopened. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/farnsworth-house/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/farnsworth-house/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 In 1945 a Chicago physician commissioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to build a weekend house beside the Fox River. What rose on eight steel columns became the century's most distilled statement of open-plan living. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/kaufmann-desert-house/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/kaufmann-desert-house/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. commissioned Fallingwater from Frank Lloyd Wright, then turned to Richard Neutra for a winter house in Palm Springs. The result became the defining example of desert modernism. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/villa-muller/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/villa-muller/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Behind an unadorned white cube in Prague, Adolf Loos built his most complete realisation of the Raumplan: rooms at different levels, ceiling heights set by importance, and interiors of marble, lemonwood and mahogany. https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/high-and-over/ https://estateanddesign.com/architecture/high-and-over/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Designed in 1929 by a young New Zealand architect, High and Over was among the first modernist houses in Britain. Divided in the 1960s, it was reunited and restored to its 1930s layout.