As the population expands and more of us look for affordable and available housing, architects and designers are making the move toward cheaper, greener, tinier options.

Fantastic feats of ingenuity and structural engineering that range from pragmatic to artistic building moving and moving buildings.

As the world increasingly focuses on sustainable initiatives, green architecture is a booming industry.

Imagine what America might look like if a sizable minority of its elders secede into their own communities. That's just what's happening behind the scenes.

Green architecture comes in many forms though lately it seems like these forms are stranger than ever.

Each of the five projects listed here took their toll financially and were paid for in part with human lives.

Here are five of these remarkable architectural designs for sustainable (and stylish) urban farm towers that may revolutionize agriculture as we know it.

Who hasn't imagined living on their very own floating paradise?

This collection spans the extremes of design and brute-force ingenuity: from the obscenely luxurious to the absurdly simple.

Gehry is best known for his curvy, metalic wave-form museums in Bilbao, Seattle, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, but it all started with strange impulses in the 70s.

As impressive as those were, however, some modern examples have begun to rival them in terms of complexity, ingenuity and (of course) sustainability.

Here are three examples of socially-motivated projects designed to make a difference.

The dust has finally settled in the Black Rock Desert, both literally and otherwise.

Would it surprise you to learn that a number of houses around the world, from New York to Amsterdam and Brazil to Britain have various claims to being the skinniest house in the world?

More and more designers are developing nomadic alternatives to traditional models of static urban living.