Basit Deniau's greatest architectural triumph is the house he died in. Rose House lies in the Mojave desert, near China Lake curled like the petals of a gypsum crystal in the shadow of a dune, all hardened glass and stucco walls curving and curving, turning in on themselves. A labyrinthine heart, beating an endless electric pulse. Deniau was not the first person to die there. Now he is also not the last.