This selection showcases residential design that demonstrate ways of fitting into disparate contexts, utilizing local materials, and exploring differing building techniques.

Mork-Ulnes Architects replaces a Sonoma house damaged by wildfire with an armored yet open retreat.

The Milwaukee-based firm builds adaptability into a Sacramento developer's own residential property.

Blee Halligan’s rigid volumes set amid lush gardens are a nod to the provincial English location’s industrial past.

Thom Mayne and his wife, Blythe Alison-Mayne, have tucked their house within a well-planted slice of L.A.

For a family home in west-central Mexico, a design team combines traditional craft and innovative technique.

A new video tour of this sinuously shaped house on an island in the Aegean now accompanies RECORD's project story.

The 2021 edition of Record Houses features six impressive residences, each of which respond to diverse contexts and reframe the typology’s otherwise conventional notions.

On Great Barrier Island, Herbst Architects reimagines the classic New Zealand beach shack with movable layers that can be deployed to let in the breeze or protect against harsh weather.

Architect Ignacio Urquiza responds to a rugged site in Oaxaca by designing a residence as three open pavilions.