At any time, projects in the NHDKMP office might range from a school addition to a high-rise tower to an urban plan, but always include a single-family house. House design represents the historical and conceptual foundation of the firm. While NHDKMP has expanded its practice, the house design has embedded itself in other design typologies. House construction is the testing ground for ideas in scale, use of materials, spatial manipulation, detail, and expression of forms, and these ideas inform the firm's other work. While NHDKMPs houses suggest a consistent modernist sensibility, attention to the client, site, and construction results in a variety of solutions. Over the past several years, the firm has compiled a "logbook" of houses, loosely categorized according to design approach. This book is a more permanent version of that logbook. The selection of houses and some related projects are taken from almost four decades of the partnership's designs. The firm's broad range of building types includes residences, multiple-family dwellings, and high-rise housing. K-12 schools and university buildings include the Latin School of Chicago, Francis W. Parker School, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, and projects at Northwestern, the University of Chicago, and Washington, University. Public, civic, and religious buildings include the Spurlock Museum, the Oak Park Public Library, and several convents. Chicago's Harpo Studios and Greyhound Bus Terminal are among the commerci