The courtyard captures nature within the embrace of the house, a "room" of green that is simultaneously indoors and outdoors.

There'd be no 50 nifty United States to celebrate without each of the 13 original colonies. So as the U.S. of A.

In our Modern Across America issue, we spotlighted five American cities with design scenes worth watching. With a slew of significant buildings by architects like Mies van der Rohe and I.M.

A new owner with a light touch has kept Marcel Breuer's 1959 Hooper House II a marvel of the mid-20th century whose life will extend well into the 21st.