224 Ideabooks by John Hill

The owners of this midcentury modern house in New York's Hudson Valley liked the casual nature of the original 1952 design, but they wanted a stronger connection to the landscape. Jeff...

Can modern architecture be used to enable a family's traditions and heritage? The knee-jerk answer might be no, since early-20th-century modernism ignored tradition in a number of ways. But given that today's modern architecture combines modern style...

Julia Morgan (1872 to 1957) was a prolific California architect who produced more than 700 buildings in her long career, most in her home state. Nevertheless, one project overshadows them all: the California hilltop estate for William Randolph Hearst...

Abbotsford, a suburb of Melbourne, is dotted with Edwardian houses that reflect a more modest style of architecture following the ornate Victorian architecture of the 19th century. The Edwardian houses make for pleasing streetscapes — and those streetscapes...

Capturing passive energy such as light and warmth from the sun is important in addressing the rising costs of energy, the depletion of finite resources and the projected long-term effects of carbon emissions. Using...

The summer of 2013 will see three major exhibitions of the work of artist James Turrell. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's James Turrell: A Retrospective will explore...

Blue Hill, Maine (population 2,686), is home to Elliott + Elliott Architecture. The company's office occupies a house built in 1835 that the architects say has been "renovated and revised, added...

With the rising costs of energy, the depletion of finite resources, and the projected long-term effects of emitting carbon into the atmosphere, using less energy for heating, cooling, ventilating and lighting a house is becoming extremely important. Passive...

A white box covered in Teflon-coated fiberglass fabric in the Netherlands. A Cor-Ten-clad volume cantilevering over a glass shop in Pittsburgh. A house in Tokyo composed solely of glass and small platforms of white steel. A raised concrete box in West...

Architect Jim Olson has long explored and enriched the varied relationships between home and nature through art and an artful approach to architecture. His approach has made him one of the Pacific Northwest's most important architects, well worth a career...

Kitchens tend to be laid out with their counters, cabinets, appliances and fixtures in a few shapes; the layouts are typically U shapes,...

The story of the Dialogue House in Phoenix spans a decade and a half. Architect Wendell Burnette designed the house in the late 1990s, earning a prestigious Progressive Architecture Award in 1999. It...

One of my predictions for 2013 was "breaking up the house," by which smaller detached volumes are able to respond to unique site conditions, such as existing trees, slopes and water's edges. Smaller...

A week after seeing one of Imbue Design's projects in Salt Lake City, the head of a local nonprofit that develops low-income housing hired the company — composed of Christopher Talvy, Hunter...

Skylights offer the potential to improve any house: They bring natural light to rooms that might otherwise be dark; they frame views of the sky and clouds; they provide a focus in a space; and they can make a statement. This ideabook focuses on the latter,...