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"Desert Homes\nTen remarkable homes where innovative architecture and rugged landscape exist in harmony.\nSoon after attending an open-house reception for Marmol Radziner Prefab's prototype, a Colorado couple commissioned the firm to create a custom prefab residence for vacation use. Above: With their sliding glass doors transitioning to covered decks, the dining and living areas, which feature furniture by Marmol Radziner, extend effortlessly into nature. Structural panels in the floor and ceiling provide superior insulation. (October 2008)\nFor her 11-acre site outside Santa Fe, Jane Whitmore hired architect Bart Prince to bring his singular vision to the design of a new residence for year-round use. Its unusual shape and varied ceiling heights give it a spaciousness that belies its 2,100-square-foot size. Above: Slabs of indigenous stone, part of an organic landscape treatment by Judith Phillips, link the carport to the front door, which is set into the sandblasted masonry-block wall for protection from the sun. Prince's colors echo the natural features of the desert terrain. (October 2006)\n\"As soon as I saw the limestone detailing going in, I knew it was really going to work,\" says Jerry Weintraub. The producer, whose credits include Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve, uses the 10,000-square-foot house for winter and weekend getaways. Above: Retractable glass walls allow the master bedroom to \"float\" over the pool. The pair of Philips plasma TVs are among dozens that the producer had placed throughout the residence. (November 2005)\nA tangle of pi\u00F1ons and junipers surrounds a desert residence created by architect Antoine Predock for a couple outside Santa Fe. \"The house is in harmony with the environment. I don't know if the house morphs into the land or the land into the house,\" comments the wife. Above: A slatted steel trellis runs the length of the living and dining areas and establishes an interplay between light and shadow, a common element in Predock's projects. \"Our home reveals itself in a different way every day,\" notes the wife. \"No moment is ever the same.\" (May 2005)\n\"The natural landscape is as important as the architecture,\" says Edward M. Jones, of Jones Studio in Phoenix, who built a contemporary house in Scottsdale, Arizona, for Tracy and Lou Ann O'Rourke \"The boulders have been there for an eternity, and the saguaros are often very old, so you don't move them just to build a house,\" says Jones. Curved cast-in-place-concrete walls are clad in titanium-zinc shingles. (May 2005)\n\"As you enter, you have a sweeping view of the courtyard and the house,\" Donna Livingston says of an Asian-influenced residence she designed in Indian Wells, California. Above: The materials of the gazebo\u2014stone and wood\u2014are repeated throughout. (November 2000)\nDesigner Sam A. Cardella collaborated with the architectural firm Interactive Design Corporation to create a Rancho Mirage, California, house for Myrna Kaplan. (April 2006)\nInterior designer Catherine Badger worked closely with clients J. P. and Mary Jon Bryan in creating their hacienda-style vacation home in West Texas's Chihuahuan desert. Above: Flanking the entrance to the kitchen are a pair of 18th-century columns from India. An array of Mexican pottery highlights the space. (November 2005)\nA 1928 Mediterranean-style house in Tucson, Arizona, is home to entertainer Linda Ronstadt and her two children. Of her move from California to Arizona, Ronstadt comments, \"I decided to raise my children there because they have more dirt, as opposed to concrete.\" Interior designer Christy Martin started the project over seven years ago. \"It's ongoing\u2014Linda loves to change things all the time,\" Martin says. (October 2004)\nCalifornia-based architect Steven Ehrlich designed a dramatic 35,000-square-foot house in Dubai, transforming an arid desert site into a modern oasis of gardens, fountains, terraces and courtyards. \"Centuries of Muslim tradition dictate that the men's majlis be separated from the women's and also have a separate entrance,\" remarks Ehrlich, who framed the doorway with onyx panels. He worked on the fountains and terraces with the landscape architecture firm Cracknell. (October 2007)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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