
Courtyard houses
Discover homes organized around courtyards, from sheltered garden rooms to openings that bring daylight into a compact plan.
374 designsArchitecture, connected
Start with what catches your eye. Explore a courtyard, a material, a setting or a way of living.
Each collection begins with an edited selection and a few useful questions. Follow a design to its photographs, research notes and original project sources.

Discover homes organized around courtyards, from sheltered garden rooms to openings that bring daylight into a compact plan.
374 designs
Explore houses in Japan through their plans, screened edges, gardens and carefully framed views.
41 designs
Explore concrete homes through their spatial choices, from private courtyards to rooms embedded in a wooded slope.
490 designsBrowse houses in tropical settings, with an edited look at sheltered terraces, planted edges and the transition between indoors and outdoors.
468 designs
Discover houses and public buildings that work with gardens, coastlines and changing ground levels.
1201 designs
Explore homes where clear plans, controlled views and a restrained architectural language make space for everyday life.
248 designsDiscover warehouse conversions and reused industrial spaces, with attention to the relationship between an existing structure and its new use.
26 designs
Discover architecture with sculptural roofs, unusual structural ideas and spaces that invite comparisons with imagined futures.
22 designsFind a design in the A–Z index, browse the Frank Lloyd Wright atlas, or trace real architecture in cinema.