Architectural Homes

Palm Springs is one of the few places where the architecture is the reason to visit. From the 1950s onward, architects including Albert Frey, William Krisel, Donald Wexler and E. Stewart Williams built for desert life here — low horizontal rooflines, walls of glass, shaded courtyards, and a deliberate blurring of where the house stops and the garden begins.

This collection is the homes in our portfolio where that thinking is still visible: houses worth photographing, worth sitting still in, and worth the trip on their own account. If you have walked a Modernism Week tour and wished you could stay the night somewhere like that, this is the list to start from.