History

The Next American Home: 6 Experiments Redrawing 2025

By 2025 the American home has hit a wall. Prices are near record-unaffordable, a…

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The Great Reshuffle: 6 Ways the Pandemic Rewrote the American Home in 2020

In 2020 the American home changed faster than in any single year since the…

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The Gray Gospel: 6 Interiors That Defined the 2015 Home

By the mid-2010s the country had clawed out of the crash, and the American…

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The Morning After: 6 Landmarks of the 2010 Foreclosure Crash

If 2005 was the party, 2010 was the hangover. There was no new architectural…

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The Architecture of Hubris: 6 Landmarks of the 2005 Housing Bubble

1. Eastvale (Riverside County, California) The Inland Empire Explosion During the peak of the…

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The Nostalgia Boom: 6 Landmarks of 2000s Neo-Traditionalism

1. Stapleton / Central Park (Denver, Colorado) The Brownfield Mega-Project Starting in 2001, Denver…

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The Endless Exurb: 6 Landmarks of 1995 Peak Sprawl

1. Ashburn (Loudoun County, Virginia) The Prototype Tech Exurb In the mid-1990s, Loudoun County…

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Starter Castles: 6 Landmarks of the 1990s McMansion Era

1. 14 Aspen Drive (North Caldwell, New Jersey) The Pop-Culture Prototype Though construction started…

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Volume and Vanity: 6 Landmarks of the 1985 Supersized Suburb

1. The Arvida Communities (Boca Raton, Florida) The Pastel Mediterranean Boom In the mid-1980s,…

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The Architecture of Excess: 6 Landmarks of the 1980s

1. Seaside (Walton County, Florida) The Postmodern Pastel Utopia Founded in 1981 by developer…

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