What the Future of Working at Home May Look Like

Innovative home designs find ways to combine living and work spaces

The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.

6 ways to make your home feel like a love letter to yourself, from interior designer Amber Guyton

Interior designer and author behind “Soulful Maximalism,” Amber Guyton, shares how color, art, comfort, and culture can transform any space.

conrad house on Twitter / X

jotted down some ramblings around "art rabbit-holing" and how the daily ritual of just looking is where personal taste actually comes from. pic.twitter.com/qPNUSLaFnj— conrad house (@DlSPUTED) July 4, 2026

Living Museum of Food: Stories, Recipes, and Culinary Heritage from Traditional Communities

[PT-BR FOLLOWS] Introduction Back when city streets were paved with cobblestones, public telephones stood on street corners, and many neighborhoods were still unpaved, life followed a different rhy…

Playbooks — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation

Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language defines 253 methods for constructing beautiful and practical designs at every scale, from cities to rooms. 

Caduceus City

The appearance of a thoroughly protocolized environment is, almost, the perfect cover for dark practices.

Roomy & Designing for Communities | Fish | Offprint

My personal experiences working with the team at Roomy, and how I feel after the last 5 months helping with the project.

A collection of 1800s home designs with floor plans from one of my home library reference books, published in the mid 1880s.

2.2K votes, 138 comments. 1.2M subscribers in the centuryhomes community. Century Homes is a place for those that enjoy homes that have reached or…

The Global Village Coffeehouse Aesthetic | Are.na Editorial

Woodcuts, tribal imagery, suns, curvy figures, aroma swirls, and earth tones: Evan Collins defines the look of the 90s

How buildings learn : what happens after they're built

Originally published: New York, NY : Viking, 1994; Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-229) and index; Flow -- Shearing layers -- "Nobody cares what you do in there": the low road --- Houseproud: the high road -- Magazine architecture: no road -- Unreal estate -- Preservation: a quiet, populist, conservative, victorious revolution -- The romance of maintenance -- Vernacular: how buildings learn from each other -- Function melts form: satisficing home and office -- The scenario-buffered building -- Built for change -- Appendix: The study of buildings in time

Rose/House — Arkady Martine

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY - STARRED REVIEW - “Martine’s soaring, crystalline prose evokes Shirley Jackson’s Hill House if designed by Frank Gehry. She builds a twisted cathedral of story and fills every inch with equal parts beauty and a creeping, inescapable sense of wrongness. Readers will be floored.”

My website is a shifting house ... | Laurel Schwulst

This is an adapted mirror of an essay which was originally commissioned and published for The Creative Independent ↗ on May 21, 2018.Since publishing, this essay has become required reading in many design syllabi worldwide and has been republished and translated into multiple languages.