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The buildings that defined a desert style.
01Houses · California
Richard Neutra's Kaufmann Desert House turned a winter retreat into a manifesto — a pinwheel of glass, steel and shade that still makes the San Jacinto range look like set dressing.
Ines Calloway · 2 min
02Houses · California
Albert Frey spent half a century in Palm Springs. His second home, perched above the city, was built around a granite rock he simply refused to move.
Teo Marchetti · 2 min
03Icons · Palm Springs
Albert Frey and Robson Chambers' 1965 Tramway station has a roof like a paper plane in a thermal. It sold gasoline for decades. Now it sells Palm Springs.
Teo Marchetti · 1 min
04Icons · Arizona
Taliesin West began as a winter camp for Wright and his apprentices. Built of the desert itself, it became one of the most radical buildings of the century.
Ines Calloway · 2 min
05Road Trips · Texas
Donald Judd moved to a tiny ranching town in the Chihuahuan Desert and turned an old army base into a permanent argument about space, light and time.
Teo Marchetti · 2 min