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Routes, stops and the light worth waiting for.
01Icons · 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
02Road Trips · California
Long before the boutique rentals, the federal government gave away tiny plots of high desert to anyone willing to build. What's left is the most honest architecture in California.
Rosa Villanueva · 1 min
03Icons · 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
04Road 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