Each year, we approach Record Houses with an abstract and optimistic wish list: Variety, leaps of the imagination in materials and form, sheer elegance of craft and composition, and mind-sparking ideas are always welcome. Often we discover unexpected themes among the projects coming our way. Sometimes a compelling concept finds an equally powerful counterpoint in another project.

With houses ranging from urban to rural, conceptually riveting to more purely sensual, miraculously small to palatially large, with cladding materials from plastic sheeting to weathered steel, we offer Record Houses 2001 as a banquet for your imagination.

Now the website allows us to present some extras as a part of the Record Houses package. You will find extra photographs of Wesley Wei's Pennsylvania House and Rick Joy's Tyler residence. You'll find and animation of Hitoshi Abe's folded guest house. And you'll find links to all of the people and products that made this year's crop of houses. Plus, see the very first Record Houses

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Photo credits from left to right— Top row: Brian Vanden Brink, Shinkenchiku-Sha, Jeff Goldberg/Esto Bottom row: Shunichi Atsumi, Catherine Bogert, Paul Warchol, Shinkenchiku-Sha