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  Cost-effective and beautiful, the latest trend in home design is a return to simplicity.

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  el dorado has built a following in Kansas City., Mo., and beyond.

• Thinking Inside the Box

  BUILDER magazine challenges four architects to design floor plans for today's market inside a 1,500-square-foot box.

• mckinney york architects

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• downtime on the farm

  Imagine a cluster of 30 or so diminutive homes set on the edge of a large field, their compact rectangles topped with tilted roofs and punctuated with bright apple-green or ochre siding. This new crop of farmworker housing, designed by the Seattle firm Mi

• rising star: john brown, raic

  John Brown, RAIC, is on a profound mission, one that doesn't involve anything as mundane as scaling K2 or swimming the English Channel. The soft-spoken Canadian wants to simultaneously improve the quality of mass-market housing and make better houses more

• students design houses for new orleans

• losa loft, san francisco

  This loft in San Francisco's Mission District was dark and cluttered before Joshua Aidlin, AIA, and his client got their hands on it.

• house of the papyrii, alys beach, fla.

  Despite tight constraints, Khoury & Vogt Architects designed this spacious, light-filled house with an efficient plan.

• back to the bauhaus box

  Given the country's dire economic state, many pundits are predicting a shift from the conspicuous consumption of luxury products to more humble displays.